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3.1
There is also, unfortunately, Leones inability to call it quits.The movie stretches on for nearly three hours, with intermission, and provides two fal ..
Rogerebert
5.0
This epic Western, with its wide spaces, striking close ups, and extraordinary music, is considered by many to be Sergio Leones best movie, and one of ..
Common Sense Media
4.5
The paradoxical, but honest fun aspect of Leones previous preoccupation with elaborately stylized violence is here unconvincingly asking for considera ..
Variety
4.5
If there had to be a final Western, Once Upon a Time in the West would be it.
Time Out
3.0
In technical terms, scenes such as the operatic opening shoot out are hard to fault,but this is a film that rewards the eyes and ears without properly ..
Time Out
5.0
Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than 1968s ode to the fading American frontier, Once Upon a Time in the West.
2.0
A note to readers: Bold and uncensored, The Austin Chronicle has been Austins independent news source for over 36 years, expressing the communitys pol ..
4.5
It is mostly fun for the way it cherishes movie styles and attitudes from the past.
The New York Times
5.0
With its amazing widescreen compositions and epic running time, this Western truly wins points for length and width.
4.5
If only the first 10 minutes of Sergio Leones Once Upon a Time in the West still existed, this most hyperbolic of oat operas would still be acknowledg ..
Village Voice
2.0
It opened in Europe at its intended length and had great success.
Sover
5.0
With its wide spaces, striking close ups, and extraordinary music, this epic Western is considered by many to be Sergio Leones best movie, as well as ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
Moments of intense realism flow into passages of operatic extravagance; lowbrow burlesque exists side by side with the expression of the most refined ..
Chicago Reader
5.0
For a lesson in how to resuscitate a dying genre, you could do worse than Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leones masterpiece from 1968.
The Times
5.0
These days, cartoonish, genre pastiching movies are everywhere, but Leones films in this vein are still more enjoyable than most.
The Times
5.0
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Independent
4.5
Leone is interested in turning these relatively simple stories into one epic tapestrya compendium of the Western film.
Mountain X
3.0
Leones film is not only the climax of a glorious career, but also a summation of a long tradition of the Western genre as we knew it.
Emanuellevy
5.0
This restored, full length version of the Everest of the 1968 spaghetti western is a violent, poetic elegy that links a revenge story (Charles Bronson ..
Guardian
4.0
The BFI last rereleased Sergio Leones 1968 revenge western 10 years ago, in a newly complete cut of almost two and three quarter hours.
Guardian
5.0
As the title of the film suggests, Leones opus aspires to the heights of both grand storytelling and literal mythmaking.
Q Network
4.5
A stray breeze magically whips a To Sublet flier onto his coat as David is leaving an apartment that he doesnt like.
Observer
4.0
There are plenty of unforgettable moments, such as that sublime crane shot over the new settlement of Flagstone, accompanied by Ennio Morricones achin ..
Total Film
5.0
Sergio Leones 1969 masterwork, in which he pulls together most of the themes of his three Dollar films, and also contributes one of the most famous cr ..
Standard
5.0
Look, the real wonder of WW84 is that this maybe isnt the worst thing about it.
Film Freak Central
4.0
The sparse dialogue isnt wasted on small talk, with the notable wordlessness easily managing to conduct the necessary exposition.
5.0
THE VERDICT Sergio Leones brilliant 1968 Western gets a welcome reissue.
Mirror
4.0
There are plenty of unforgettable moments, such as that sublime crane shot over the new settlement of Flagstone, accompanied by Ennio Morricones achin ..
Games Radar
3.5
ONCE upon the time in Italy, there lived a little boy named Sergio Leone who, like all little boys, went to the movies quite a lot, particularly to se ..
Ny Times
4.4
Its probably unwise to come to Leone looking for too much in the way of feminism.
Larsen On Film
5.0
With Monument Valley providing a stunning backdrop Leones hymn to the genre he loved is an epic in the biggest sense of the word.
Sky
5.0
This weeks TLS October 12, 2018 Visions of modern India; the Odyssey in reception, translation and imagination; what German nationalism did to the ide ..
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5.0
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2.0
Once Upon a Time in the West is the mythic Western; an ode to the end of its era.
Movie Mezzanine
5.0
It takes time and distance.But Shane still is a sweet childhood memory.
Tony Mack
5.0
There is something touching and maniacal about the two and three quarter hour result.
New Republic
3.5
Heroes, villains, desperados, and the inevitable shoot outs: Youll find them all in what a lot of fans consider Leones best film.
Movie Metropolis
5.0
Gunslingers, one road towns, horse and buggies... Once Upon a Time in the West has them all, and spread across a sprawling near three hour running tim ..
Trespass Mag
5.0
Leave it to the Italians to put genuine operatic dimension into the great American saga of western expansion.
Stream On Demand At Home
4.5
Something about her nearly expressionless performance didnt work for me here.
Battleship Pretension
5.0
Quite simply a masterpiece, Leones revisionist western is a mythic spectacle of a film and a landmark in cinema history.
Web Archive
5.0
This romantic comedy is a hatred turns to love story that never even pretends to be anything other than predictable.
Daily Record
1.5
A director like John Ford, if he thought this tedious two hour tale worth the telling, could have done it in a tight ninety minutes.
Content Time
4.5
Sergio Leone loaded up for another Spaghetti Western and shot out his magnum opus with this follow up to the Dollars trilogy. Charles Bronson stars as ..
Ask Men
4.5
I wish my words could convey just how wonderful this film is. But they cant. Sergio Leone was a poet with a camera.
Hollywood Jesus
5.0
4/13 The Terence Davies Trilogy (Terence Davies, 1984) 1/2 DVD, 5th Davies film The first part covers a lot of exposition and territory thats so famil ..
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