The Appaloosa
Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 14, 1966 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
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The New York TimesBosley Crowther
Essentially a film of mordant feeling in which violence is always just below the surface of pokerfaced bluffing and fake Old-World Spanish courtesy. Read full review
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TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
Director Furie's stylistic method of dwelling on certain scenes, a penchant for close-ups so large and exasperating as to blot out the screen and confuse the vision, worked effectively in his Ipcress File, but here his shots of teeth, guns, horses' eyes, Brando's jowls, and Comer's brow are merely specious, distracting, and as amateurish as a TV director shooting into the sun for reflection or allowing water on the camera lens to remind the viewer that technicians are present. Read full review
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Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
The film has its moments, but is rendered virtually unwatchable by Furie's mania for weirdly mannered camera angles (you spend half the time peering round, over or under obstacles behind which the action is strategically placed) and enormous, pointless close-ups. Read full review
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The New YorkerPauline Kael
A dog of a movie about a horse.
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