The Magnificent Seven
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 23, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 50 Critic Reviews
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19
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29
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamSep 12, 2016
Not quite magnificent but certainly Fuqua’s best since "Training Day" and a rare remake that actually delivers. Yee-haw! Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfSep 10, 2016
If Fuqua and his screenwriters (including True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto) slightly botch the underlying theme of redemption—Ethan Hawke’s haunted ex-Confederate sharpshooter could have been more developed—it still makes good on its ideas of community pride. Read full review
75
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenSep 24, 2016
Fuqua’s remake is a worthy successor to the ’60s “Seven.” Read full review
75
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanSep 24, 2016
In our post-Tarantino world, Fuqua shows remarkable restraint. The long, efficiently filmed battle doesn’t douse us in blood; for once, PG-13 is the proper rating for a violent film. Read full review
75
New York PostLou LumenickSep 22, 2016
This entertaining and handsome-looking version of The Magnificent Seven is very much tailored to his star, right down to Washington’s real-life history as a preacher’s son. Read full review
75
Rolling StonePeter TraversSep 22, 2016
The new Seven isn't aiming for cinema immortality. It's two hours of hardcore, shoot-em-up pow and it's entertaining as hell. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSep 21, 2016
The Magnificent Seven had me smiling throughout, tapping into Saturday matinee memories without seeming entirely old-fashioned. Read full review
75
ConsequenceBlake GobleSep 21, 2016
Fuqua isn’t interested in pushing the genre forward so much as respecting and updating the model accordingly. The director focuses on establishing his gang of gunslingers sturdily enough that the action becomes easy to engage with, and even get excited about. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattSep 21, 2016
This Seven’s just silly, solid entertainment: multiplex fun by numbers. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperSep 20, 2016
Over all, this is a rousing, albeit sometimes cheesy, action-packed Western bolstered by Denzel Washington’s baddest-of-the-baddasses lead performance, mostly fine supporting work, and yep, some of the most impressively choreographed extended shootout sequences in recent memory. Read full review
75
The VergeBryan BishopSep 10, 2016
Fuqua's film is ultimately a reminder of why the genre was once so wildly popular in the first place. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichSep 8, 2016
Truly, The Magnificent Seven is a story of simple pleasures, and it gets the little things right. Read full review
70
NPRBob MondelloSep 23, 2016
If body count is what you go to Westerns for, by all means drift into this one's corral. It's hardly magnificent, and apart from its casting it's not doing anything particularly original with its premise. But it's diverting in about the way you'd expect of a remake twice removed — call it a perfectly competent seven. Read full review
70
SlateAisha HarrisSep 22, 2016
Magnificent Seven has one and only true goal: It’s a new Hollywood crack at good, old-timey entertainment. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzSep 22, 2016
It’s a fun movie, a nicely made Western in which bad guys get to be good guys sometimes. Maybe that should be enough, but you can’t help wanting more. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakSep 8, 2016
The marketing may try to dress it up like a prestige picture, but Magnificent Seven is a summer season thrill ride. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 22, 2016
Pure blockbuster gloss – perfectly fine for a Saturday afternoon matinee, but instantly forgettable once you’ve emerged from the dark of a multiplex. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrSep 22, 2016
It ain’t Shakespeare, or even Kurosawa. But it’s an acceptable remake of a western that itself was an acceptable remake of one of the greatest movies ever made. Enjoyable, even, until the last act proves how dull an overextended gun battle can get. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineJake ColeSep 18, 2016
As passably entertaining as the film is, it never surrenders to the abandon of its action, and as such never feels like it shifts out of first gear. Read full review
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