Seven Samurai
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 19, 1956 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
98
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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100
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
The glorious vigour and strength of this film is presented with such theatrical relish and flair: its energy flashes out of the screen like a sword. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Moves like hot mercury, and it draws a viewer so thoroughly into its world that real life can seem thick and dull when the lights come up. Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Much imitated, still unsurpassed. By critical consensus one of the best movies ever made, The Seven Samurai covers so much emotional, historical, and cinematic ground that that it demands to be viewed over and over again. Read full review
100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
The legendary Mifune leads a superb cast, and Kurosawa's kinetic camera keeps the adventure sizzling with energy and wit from start to finish. Read full review
100
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
It's impossible to imagine how the action genre would have developed without Akira Kurosawa's watershed 1954 movie Seven Samurai. Read full review
90
The New York TimesBosley Crowther
On that simple framework and familiar story line, director Kurosawa has plastered a wealth of rich detail, which brilliantly illuminates his characters and the kind of action in which they are involved. He has loaded his film with unusual and exciting physical incidents and made the whole thing graphic in a hard, realistic western style. Read full review
90
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Rich in detail, vivid in characterization, leisurely in exposition, this 207-minute epic is bravura filmmaking -- a brilliant yet facile synthesis of Hollywood pictorialism, Soviet montage, and Japanese theatricality that could be a B western transposed to Mars.
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