| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: April 28, 1972 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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9
Mixed:
6
Negative:
1
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By boldly balancing historical responsibility with modern social critique, Poitier establishes his Western masterpiece as both a time capsule and timeless adventure, flowing effortlessly between the genre’s entertaining shootouts and robberies and the prescient commentary of subverting racist systems by all means necessary.
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A modest entertainment made intriguing by the race element. [15 May 1972, p.14]
Poitier relieves the melodrama, thankfully, by livening up the picture with his sense of humor. [29 Apr 1972, p.187]
[Poitier] does a surprisingly strong job of directing (his initial attempt) this well-written, meaningful script by Ernest Kinoy. [16 Jun 1972]
Lively entertainment underlined by some stinging social comment. [04 May 1972, p.17]
[Poitier] is indeed so good that he almost enables one to forget that "Buck and the Preacher" is simply a standard Western with a slightly different twist. [10 May 1972, p.17]
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