The film's real joy rests in Costner's meticulous attention to historical detail, creating a world that is both moving and credible.
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02/20/08
Dances with Wolves (1990)
77 %
Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 36 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 7/10
Consensus:
A grand, sweeping epic with inarguably noble intentions and arresting cinematography, but one whose center, arguably, is not as weighty as it should be.
Runtime: 4 hrs
Synopsis: In 1865, Civil War hero Lt. John Dunbar asks to be reassigned to the western frontier before it disappears. At his isolated post he develops a relationship with the peaceful Lakota Sioux and a white woman who lives among them, finding greater kinship with them than with his own people.... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Director: Kevin Costner
Producer: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
Composer: John Barry
Screenwriter: Michael Blake
Producer: Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
Composer: John Barry
Screenwriter: Michael Blake
Reviews
Top Critic
Once you're sucked into the leisurely narrative, it's hard to resist.
01/26/06
Top Critic
Still enthrals with its sweeping direction, gentle humour and lack of pretension.
06/06/01
Top Critic
In his directorial debut, Kevin Costner brings a rare degree of grace and feeling to this elegiac tale.
01/28/08
Top Critic
The political correctness is so politically correct and sappy and sucky and conscience-appeasing and politically-pacifying and just generally brain-numbing
05/05/07
Not a great film by any standard, this is a western for people who are completely ignorant about the genre.
02/05/07
Top Critic
Sincere, capable, at times moving, but overextended, this picture is seriously hampered by its tendency to linger over everything -- especially landscapes with silhouetted figures, and not excluding its own good intentions.
02/05/07
One of the best films of our time. The finest achievement of Kevin Costner's career.
06/19/06
While the movie is not really revisionist or a new type of Western, it's a mass-oriented film in its middlebrow sensibility and acceptable message about the co-existence between the White Man and Native Americans.
06/10/06
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