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Once Upon A Time In The West (1968) Rank 4 Reviews
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Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
The 165-minute feature doesn't always make perfect sense, but it's a thrill to just sit back and enjoy the scenery. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Sergio Leone's masterpiece. In ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, Leone pulls together all the themes, characterizations, visuals, humor, and musical experiments of the three "Dollars" films and comes up with a true epic western. It is a stunning, operatic ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
MovieFreak.com (Dennis Landmann)
Cine-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)
Un quai de gare désert quelque part dans le Grand Ouest près de Flagstone. Trois hommes, vêtus de longs manteaux cache-poussière et coiffés de chapeaux à larges bords, attendent un voyageur pour l'abattre. Mais c'est leur cible, un homme sans nom ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Cine-club de Caen (Jean-Luc Lacuve)
MovieJustice (Nicholas Cala)
Ultimately this film is perfect in almost every way. It has great characters, an enthralling plot, awesome music, and a hint of Sergio Leone trademark style perfect for the old west. You don't see Once Upon a Time in the West, you experience it. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at MovieJustice (Nicholas Cala)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
Once Upon a Time in the West is often mesmerizing cinema. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
Cinematic Reflections (Derek Smith)
'even the quieter romantic or reflective moments are filled with a sense of energy coming from the expectation that at any given moment something huge is going to happen.' ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Cinematic Reflections (Derek Smith)
Reno Gazette-Journal (Mark Robison)
rec.arts.movies.reviews (Ted Prigge)
Empire Magazine [UK] (Kim Newman)
With its amazing widescreen compositions and epic running time, this Western truly wins points for length and width. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Empire Magazine [UK] (Kim Newman)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Leone’s masterpiece, the pinnacle of his storied career ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
Though elegiac, Once Upon a Time in the West is too vital to be a flat-out elegy, too influential to be a lament. It very simply matters. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Leone's operatic oater remains notable for a number of achievements. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Apollo Guide (Ryan Cracknell)
Explores legends and entombs myths into a film that is timeless and will live on as a work of art even if the western as we once knew it disappeared alongside its heroes. ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at Apollo Guide (Ryan Cracknell)
IMDB.com
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST is often referenced as the last of Leone's "spaghetti" westerns (although Leone made western like FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE three years later) while some reserve this seemingly derogatory term for his three previous films, better ...read the complete Once Upon A Time In The West movie review at IMDB.com
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