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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: The fact that this film is constructed to endorse the exercise of murderers, to emphasize killer bravado and generate glee in frantic manifestations of death is, to my mind, a sharp indictment of it as so-called entertainment in this day. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Leone's artful editing of close-ups to communicate the characters' spatial relationships is always a pleasure. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here is a gloriously greasy, sweaty, hairy, bloody and violent Western. It is delicious. Read more