Little Big Man
National General Pictures | Release Date: December 23, 1970 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1
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100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Arthur Penn's Little Big Man is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn. Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Hoffman is uncharacteristically charming in a demanding role; the supporting cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Chief Dan George as a befuddled patriarch who takes the supernatural as a matter of course. Read full review
90
TimeS. K.
It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Read full review
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Little Big Man is a sort of vaudeville show, framed in fictional biography, loaded with sketches of varying degrees of serious and burlesque humor, and climaxed by the Indian victory over Gen George A. Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
The dual point of view is used effectively, though it's less valid as social criticism (where Penn's observations tend toward facile revisionism) than as an index of the uncertainty that characterizes most of Penn's heroes. Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
Episodic western with a great performance from Hoffman. Read full review
30
The New York TimesVincent Canby
The film tries to cover too much ground, even though Calder Willingham's script eliminates or telescopes events and characters from the Berger novel. Read full review
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