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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: Ed Harris does it better than anybody. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Mortensen should certainly do another western, soon. Preferably he should do one with a real sense of danger to go along with all the neat, tidy, highfalutin' honor and decency. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: In its own quiet way it delivers the goods. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Mannered, episodic and slow. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Harris displays a quiet, unshowy confidence and a genuine fondness for the genre, capturing the horses and guns and saloon glasses in a soft, almost-sundown light. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: In the early going, Appaloosa does an efficient job of establishing the tense standoff between lawmen-for-hire Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, and a tyrannical rancher (an extravagantly sinister Jeremy Irons). Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Ambition is a great quality in a filmmaker, especially when it's realized. Yet there is something to be said for just telling a story, and with Appaloosa, Harris does a fine job of it. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A warmly made, slightly offbeat movie about friendly devotion. It also happens to be a western, and every man in it is grizzled or wizened or both. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's unfortunate for everyone concerned, and for the film, that the train chugs into town one day. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: From its first, mournful brass theme, Ed Harris's Appaloosa nails the look and feel of a classic Western. This is an old-style, laconically macho, six-shooting horse opera made with an obvious and unapologetic love of the genre. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Harris directs with a steady hand and sharp eye for the best in his fellow actors. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: After Appaloosa establishes its slightly modern characters in a traditional setting, it has nowhere to go but toward the completely expected. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Appaloosa is a pleasingly spacious piece of work, but for all of its little tangles it never musters the kick of a psychological duel. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The top-heavy plot takes over, and the picture makes a beeline back to tepid convention. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: It could be said that Harris and his co-writer, Robert Knott, haven't done a whole lot of writing, but as Cole himself might say, there's no need to get all fancy with what's plain and true. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Appaloosa takes the traditional notion of a lone lawman fighting injustice and turns it successfully on its head. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: In all, Appaloosa is good as far as it goes -- everything in it feels true -- but I wish that Harris had pushed his ideas further. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Ed Harris has the kind of head that would look great on a coin, but it looks even better on a movie screen, as he turns his chiseled features this way and that. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Though the leads do fine work, their efforts often feel slightly futile. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Beautifully photographed by Dean Semler, Appaloosa is the best Western since Open Range and shows there's still life in this most unfashionable of genres. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Ed Harris reunites with Viggo Mortensen, his co-star in A History of Violence, and the chemistry is easygoing and understated. But he should have left the direction to someone else. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Ed Harris, working from a Robert Parker novel, has crafted a meticulously detailed, newfangled old-fashioned morality tale of hard men who go soft when a woman comes between them. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Appaloosa is an archetypal western with touches of the modern buddy comedy. Though it falls short of these classics, it is a little bit Destry Rides Again and a little bit more Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: There's a refreshing vein of understated humor running throughout the production. It's neither forced nor unnatural and it keeps things from becoming too somber, even when the bullets start flying. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What is seductive about Appaloosa is its easygoing rhythm. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's high time for the western to be resuscitated as a genre; a picture that just pokes along amiably isn't enough to get the job done. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Harris co-wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is filled with humor, action and clever turns. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Appaloosa is one of those movies that creeps up on you after the fact. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Harris follows his strong helming debut Pollock with a contribution to the western movie revival that looks and sounds like a classic. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: These are horse-opera fundamentals; having given them short shrift, the film just shuffles down its lonesome trail into the horizon and out of your memory. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's a pleasure to watch such gifted actors interact in a classic genre. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Dialogue, much of it lifted straight from Parker's novel, proves mostly engaging. Read more
Mike Mayo, Washington Post: Filled with dusty light, craggy facial features and broad landscapes, it's a solid story that honors the traditions of the genre as it reworks them. Read more