Rio Lobo
National General Pictures | Release Date: December 18, 1970 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
4
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1
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75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The story itself doesn't matter much. We go to a classic John Wayne Western not to see anything new, but to see the old done again, done well, so that we can sink into the genre and feel confident we won't be betrayed. Read full review
70
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
If it lacks the formal perfection of Rio Bravo and the moving elegy for men grown old of El Dorado, it's still a marvellous film. Read full review
60
TimeJay Cocks
There are a few good scenes—an intricately executed train wreck, for example—but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful. Read full review
60
EmpireIan Nathan
Fairly routine western makes a disappointing swansong for Hawks. Still good fun though, if you like this kind of thing. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
While no Hawks movie can be considered a total loss, this reductive replay of Rio Bravo and El Dorado is too peevish to qualify as tragic, and only occasionally funny. Read full review
50
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
Rio Lobo is the sort of western that John Wayne and producer-director Howard Hawks do in their sleep. But by no stretch of nostalgia does it match such previous Wayne-Hawks epics as Red River or Rio Bravo. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Only the performance of Elam remains lively, but it is the type of characterization he has done dozens of times. A sad finale to Hawks's magnificent career. Read full review
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