| Critic |
Review |
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Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
A.O. Scott,
The New York Times |
3:10 to Yuma |
"Russell Crowe, who wears the black hat in 3:10 to Yuma, is a native of New Zealand. Christian Bale, the good guy, was born in Wales. Lou Dobbs and other commentators who have lately been sounding the alarm about outsourcing, immigration and the globalization of the labor market may want to take note. The hero and the villain in a cowboy movie: are we going to stand by and let foreigners steal these jobs? Are no Americans willing to do them?
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The debate over immigration and outsourcing enters a critical phase. If we don't have Westerns, what do we have?
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J. Hoberman,
The Village Voice |
3:10 to Yuma |
"If 3:10 to Yuma lacked High Noon's stripped-down drama, it strove for additional psychological complexity in contrasting two American types: the stolid working-stiff everyman and the charming hipster sociopath. In one of its most resonant bits, Yuma juxtaposes Heflin's dutiful marriage with Ford's passionate seduction of a lonely barmaid." |
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a buddy flick.
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Armond White,
New York Press |
Romance & Cigarettes |
"In Turturro's oddest scene, Gandolfini disparages Broadway musical legend Ethel Merman: 'I never liked her. She intruded on our aloneness with that foghorn of a voice.' But this, in fact, is what's crude. It's as if Gandolfini/Turturro were afraid to admit the loneliness that Merman, Davies and Hogan confessed (and thereby transcended camp). Turturro aims for postmodern irony and misses. But slamming La Merman doesn't mean crude people still won't mistake him for a pansy." |
Seriously, Armond White is on point here. If you're going to make a pop-musical movie it's balls to the wall or nothing.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Shoot 'Em Up |
"Movies like Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City or the Rodriguez-Quentin Tarantino double feature Grindhouse are unrepentantly twisted, violent and depraved, but they at least spring from a fresh, bubbling country stream of feigned innocence." |
And we're all looking forward to the next dewy stories to spring from the fresh, bubbling country stream that is Tarantino's imagination. |
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Kenneth Turan,
L.A. Times |
3:10 to Yuma |
"What's most impressive about this new version, [of 3:10 to Yuma] is that James Mangold directs it with such energy and passion that it's as if he didn't know it's all been done before." |
Never was there a truer analysis of what it takes to make a good movie. Hell, it's a pretty brilliant metaphor for successfully living life in general.
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