United Artists | Release Date: October 25, 1978 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Handsome but overly studied. [09 Mar 1986, p.5]
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So self-conscious about its themes that nothing in the storytelling occurs naturally.
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Each new attempt to revive the Western seems to plunge the patient into a deeper coma. Arriving on the heels of Jack Nicholson's Goin' South, Alan J. Pakula's cataleptic Comes a Horseman suggests a conspiracy to kick the poor old Western while it's down. [25 Oct 1978, p.D13]
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New York Magazine (Vulture)David Denby
[Pakula] has made the dreary mistake of reducing a half-dead genre to its basic elements, stripping away color, detail, humor--everything that makes it possible to regard a Western as a pleasure rather than an ordeal. [13 Nov 1978, p.128]