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3:10 to Yuma (2007) Rank 4 Reviews
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Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
If "3:10 to Yuma" feels familiar, and it does, it's not just because it's a remake of the classic 1957 western. Almost every plot point -- psycho gunslingers, savage Apaches, even doctors who say "that bullet has to come out" -- is a trope that has been ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Film School Rejects ("El Bicho")
What rules the universe: order or chaos? Is there a plan set forth by a supreme being or are we all making it up as we go? How do your answers affect the way you live your life? Are you bound by the rules agreed to by society or do you instead choose to ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Film School Rejects ("El Bicho")
Box Office Prophets
Russell Crowe likes to be in manly movies about manly men doing manly things. And if he gets to be the manliest man around, all the better. Well, it doesn't get much more manly than this. James Mangold's absolutely fantastic western 3:10 to Yuma is ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Box Office Prophets
The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
I havenât seen the 1957 original upon which this utterly enthralling film is based, but it doesnât matter. This is inventive and exciting, a grip-the-armrests, hold-your-breath reinvigorating of the Western movie, and either director James ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
Helps us remember why we loved westerns in the first place. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Beaumont Journal (Danny Minton)
Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Not just one of this year's best films, but also one my favorite westerns ever ...What an entertaining, thoughtful, relevant film this is. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
One of the best movies of the year and a Western on par with Clint Eastwoodâs 1992 Oscar-winning Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma demonstrates the once popular genre still has a lot of life left in it. Featuring incredible ensemble acting and a story that blend ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
dvdfuture.com (R. L. Shaffer)
The western genre has been in shambles for the past two decades now. With its regular actors either dead or working on other projects, most of the mainstream has moved on to something bigger and "better". But the western did not die, no; itâs merely bee ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at dvdfuture.com (R. L. Shaffer)
Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
When you take a month and a half off â travel the country â I canât tell you how hard it is to get back into the mode of writing about film. Donât get me wrong, I love writing about film, itâs just for the last month and a half, I got used to do ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Ain't It Cool Movie Reviews (Harry Knowles)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Crowe couldn't convey the concept of a predatory animal in control while under restraint any more unsettlingly if he was cannibal Hannibal Lector. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Movie Habit (Matt Anderson)
Christian Bale and Russell Crowe embroiled in a battle of wits. Oh yeah. That's worth the price of admission. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Movie Habit (Matt Anderson)
eFilmCritic.com (Jay Seaver)
When I saw the first film made from Elmore Leonard's short story "3:10 to Yuma" a couple years ago, I described it as "a game of cat and mouse with the cat and the mouse in the same room". James Mangold's version doesn't spend quite so much time in that ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Jay Seaver)
Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
3:10 to Yuma remembers when the western was serious business. This is not a film that enlists the conventions of this old, trod-upon genre in the service of something ironic and post-modern. It does not mock its old-time gunslingers, law men and roving ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Film Blather (Eugene Novikov)
cinemattraction (Brandon Fibbs)
Once the quintessential American genre, the western has fallen on hard times the past few decades. But every once in a while a film comes along that reminds you why the western is our national epic and Hollywoodâs greatest tradition of popular ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at cinemattraction (Brandon Fibbs)
ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)
Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
The heart-stopping, breathtaking journey of 3:10 to Yuma reminds us just how exciting a good, old-fashioned movie can be. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
MovieWeb (Adam Frazier)
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
One of the best movies of the year and a Western on par with Clint Eastwoodâs 1992 Oscar-winning Unforgiven, 3:10 to Yuma demonstrates the once popular genre still has a lot of life left in it. Featuring incredible ensemble acting and a story that blend ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
It's impossible to tell (and irrelevant, too) whether James Mangold's remake of the classic Western "3:10 to Yuma" was deliberately planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the original, also titled "3:10 to Yuma," one of the best psychological ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (Bruce Bennett)
Westerns may be old fashioned, but as old-school homages go, superb writing and compelling acting will never go out of style. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Spectrum (St. George, Utah) (Bruce Bennett)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Stark, intelligent, and supremely suspenseful, 3:10 TO YUMA is a masterpiece of psychological drama coupled with a darn fine action flick that uses the classic western as its idiom. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
zBoneman Movie Reviews (Kevin Jones & Adam Mast)
Bale delivers a quiet but masterful performance while Crowe chews scenery as the heavy. It is Ben Foster, however, who steals the show as Crowe's guard dog of a right hand man. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at zBoneman Movie Reviews (Kevin Jones & Adam Mast)
ReelzChannel (Jeff Otto)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
James Mangold's "3:10 to Yuma" restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of pointless violence. The Western in its glory days was often a morality play, a story about humanist values penetrating the lawless anarchy of the fr ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Elyusha Vafaeisefat)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
James Mangold's "3:10 to Yuma" restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of pointless violence. The Western in its glory days was often a morality play, a story ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
As tight and taut a film I have seen all year, 3:10 to Yuma may help revive the American western, personally my favourite genre, but also one that has fallen out of favour with audiences and the studios. Some of the greatest films in the history of the ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Foote on Film (John H. Foote)
Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
A terrific movie with excellent performances from Crowe and Bale. If it doesn't find itself on the short list of Academy Award contenders, the film itself has been robbed. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
FilmStew.com (Brent Simon)
Mangold is a filmmaker who doesnt mind throwing a melancholic spotlight on the swallowed regret and pained reflection of his protagonists. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at FilmStew.com (Brent Simon)
Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen)
James Mangold's expanded take on 3:10 to Yuma makes for a largely compelling ride on the strength of a powerful cast led by Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Hollywood Reporter (Michael Rechtshaffen)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
James Mangold's "3:10 to Yuma" restores the wounded heart of the Western and rescues it from the morass of pointless violence. The Western in its glory days was often a morality play, a story about humanist values penetrating the lawless anarchy of the fr ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
It's a movie grounded in something like the credible realism of a John Ford Western but which also can appease the thirsts for blood, wit and tension harbored by fans of Quentin Tarantino. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
What Alfred Hitchcock once said about thrillers also applies to Westerns: The stronger the bad guy, the better the film. By that measure, 3:10 to Yuma is excellent. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
Box Office Prophets
Director James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma certainly has a lot of the formulaic elements to be considered a Western release: horses, gunfights, desert, saloons and an easy barmaid to boot. But in reality, it would be unreasonable, really, to sequester the ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Box Office Prophets
EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
The good guys in "3:10 to Yuma" expend a lot of effort to get Ben Wade, a murdering S.O.B., to the train station so that he can be transported to jail and given a fair trial. After that trial, he will be hanged. No one doubts that. The trial is ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at EricDSnider.com (Eric D. Snider)
Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
The rousing new Western 3:10 to Yuma has the sweep of an epic and the economy of a stopwatch. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Baltimore Sun (Michael Sragow)
Empire Movies (Brendan Cullin)
Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Here we have, for the first time in years, an unabashed all-American Western. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
I could call 3:10 to Yuma, a remake of a 1957 film, the Silence of the Lambs of Westerns. Strange description? Yes, I'll admit, but consider the piece's villain, outlaw Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), and the fact that he's a prisoner here who plays mind games ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
A rip-roarin' Western with thrilling gunfights to match its moral tug-of-war, and both Bale and Crowe are terrific. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
Diehard Western fans might appreciate it, but those unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the genre will admire it for the craftsmanship that Mangold et al bring to the table. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at ComingSoon.net (Edward Douglas)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
With its ticking clock, its focus on conscience, its hero eager to win or retain the respect of those who support him and those who do not, James Mangoldâs â3:10 to Yumaâ cannot help evoking thoughts of Fred Zinnemannâs 1952 âHigh Noon.â âH ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Detroit News (Tom Long)
There's a dusty, old-fashioned authenticity to "3:10 to Yuma" that can't be denied; not because it's particularly realistic -- it's not -- but because it's so unabashedly classic. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Detroit News (Tom Long)
Blackfilm.com
Dan Evans (Christian Bale) is a down-and-out rancher whoâs struggling to save his cattle during a prolonged drought. After losing lost a leg in the Civil War, the proud veteran had settled in Arizona with his wife, Alice (Gretchen Mol), reasonably ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Blackfilm.com
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
There are gunfights, stagecoach crashes and dynamite blasts in "3:10 to Yuma," yet the real conflict of the piece is emotional. This is a western where closeups are more ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
Who knew that the veins tracing Russell Crowe's amused mouth led to an untapped mother lode? That the geology of Christian Bale's face was as ironbound and unforgiving as the red rock of ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Carrie Rickey)
The Observer (Philip French)
In 1953, pulp magazine Dime Fiction published a 17-page story in the hard-boiled style of Hemingway and Hammett, set in a small Arizona township aptly named Contention, where a deputy marshal waits for the train that will take him and his prisoner, a ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at The Observer (Philip French)
Houston Chronicle (Bruce Westbrook)
Like musicals, Westerns rarely reach screens, and always with the burden of reviving a once-dominant genre. Although no isolated hit can do that, 3:10 to Yuma shows there's ample life left among sagebrush and six-guns. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Houston Chronicle (Bruce Westbrook)
WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)
Christian Bale stars as Dan Evans â a down on his luck rancher and Civil War vet trying to do everything he can to save the family farm. He gets an opportunity when the infamous outlaw and meanest hombre in Arizona, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), brings his ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)
IGN Movies (Stax)
The rare remake that is as good if not better than the original film, director James Mangold's version of 3:10 to Yuma is a thrilling, character-driven movie that ranks as one of the very best films of the ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at IGN Movies (Stax)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
If James Mangoldâs 3:10 to Yuma canât generate life into that most moribund of genres, the western film, then itâs probably time to consign the idea of westerns to Boot Hill and be done with it. The last time there was a serious attempt at a ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
James Mangold probably won't like me calling his latest film a solid formula movie, but that's what 3:10 to Yuma is. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Can Magazine (Fred Topel)
Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)
I'm all for revising the old ways and means, but palimpsestic films like 3:10 to Yuma ought not forget nor elide those things that used to work just fine, like lapidary storytelling. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Cinepinion (Henry Stewart)
Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
Is it my imagination, or have the movies gone into the Wayback Machine and come out in the late 1950s? Genres thought dead and moldering in their film canisters are suddenly back on their feet. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Boston Globe (Ty Burr)
iF Magazine (Abbie Bernstein)
Mangold and the writers find the action potential in the Western format and ride the hell out of it. Fight and chase sequences are striking, even thrilling. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at iF Magazine (Abbie Bernstein)
Reeling Reviews (Robin Clifford)
I encourage those that go to see the new 3:10 to Yuma to seek out the original on cable/satellite TV or on DVD rental (it is available). Although both tell the same story, each is done with its own sense of style. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Reeling Reviews (Robin Clifford)
Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
... let it be said loud and clear: In almost every respect, Mangold's new version is superior to the original. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Los Angeles CityBeat (Andy Klein)
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Andrew Sarris once wrote about the "bread-and-butter" Western and the "blue ribbon" Western. The latter, ultra-serious example tried to make the Western more important by adding outside elements, but at the same time it sapped all the fun and very nearly ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
James Mangoldâs film, â3:10 to Yuma,â is a remake of a classic 1957 movie starring Van Heflin and Glenn Ford. Much has changed in 50 years. The original movie portrays the outlaw band as ruthless killers, ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)
Crowe infuses the original Glen Ford role with mucho macho bravado as a high-IQ teflon desperado with a possible heart - as well as hefty stolen pouch of gold. ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Long Island Press (Prairie Miller)
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
James Mangoldâs poetic 3:10 to Yuma may be a signal of the second-coming of the American Western. One could make the case that Kevin Costnerâs 2003 effort, Open Range, paved the way, but that yippee-kay-yay-hollerin' picture seems like a childrenâs ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Director James Mangold tends to cruise below the fame radar a bit. Few would recognize his name offhand, and his auteurial stamp lacks the distinctiveness that makes people notice a Scorsese or a Spielberg. And yet, as he delivers his sixth film into ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Director James Mangoldâs update of the Elmore Leonard short story that spawned the original 1957 Western, is a gritty action-packed movie that trades on the talents of its headstrong leading men. Russell Crowe effortlessly settles into the role of ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at ColeSmithey.com (Cole Smithey)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"A reawakening of the western genre,with this increased action remake of a saga pitting the weak-willed rancher against the bloodthirsty baddie." ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Beyond Hollywood
From the outset, director James Mangoldâs (âWalk the Lineâ) latest film, â3:10 to Yuma,â has two strikes against it: it is a Western, a genre that has been dying a slow death over the past 25 years, and it is a remake. That it succeeds is a test ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at Beyond Hollywood
The Onion A.V. Club
The original 1957 version of 3:10 To Yumaâone of the first film adaptations of an Elmore Leonard story, alongside 1957's The Tall Tâis a typical psychological Western, a lean, rangy black-and-white film as much about what its protagonists are thinking ...read the complete 3:10 to Yuma movie review at The Onion A.V. Club
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