Rio Bravo 1959

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: A comic western that ambles through its two hours and 21 minutes, it always has time to pause for a joke, a song or banter among the characters. Read more

A.H. Weiler, New York Times: Despite its slickness, virility, occasional humor and, if it may be repeated, authentic professional approach, it is well-made but awfully familiar fare. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Howard Hawks's finest western (1959), and perhaps his finest film. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: The movie is simultaneously an apogee of the classic Western style, with its principled violence in defense of just law, and an eccentrically hyperbolic work of modernism, which yokes both bumptious erotic comedy and soul-searing rawness to the mission. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: To watch Rio Bravo is to see a master craftsman at work. The film is seamless. There is not a shot that is wrong. It is uncommonly absorbing, and the 141-minute running time flows past like running water. Read more

TIME Magazine: Wayne, of course, walks off with the show -- not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Arguably Hawks' greatest film. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Rio Bravo is a big, brawling western. Read more