Broken Trail
  • Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 24, 2006
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: Gloria Goodale
    100
    This elegant, shaggy dog of a 19th-century western takes us on a painfully human journey across the old West.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    91
    If it weren't for the commercials and basic-cable cutaways from some violence, you'd swear you were watching a classic Western. [23 Jun 2006, p.66]
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  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    90
    This four-hour gem is exquisite from start to finish, rife with the texture of its place and time, rich with human understanding expressed in everyday articulation and small gestures.
  5. San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times
    Reviewed by: Charlie McCollum
    90
    The finest purely American TV film to come along in some time.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    88
    Any fan of Westerns, or of Duvall, will not be disappointed if this "Trail" is followed.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allison Benedikt
    80
    A gorgeous piece of cinema.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    80
    It's a little movie that feels big, without being self-consciously cinematic.
  9. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    75
    A richly entertaining winner, a saga that both stirs the emotions and whips up vivid outbursts of satisfying, varmint-vanquishing action.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    75
    "Broken Trail" is a Western in the old-fashioned vein - one that keeps the action moving, but along an even, and sometimes verrry slow trail.
  11. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    75
    These joined stories never forge into one strong plot, but there's always Duvall. [3 Jul 2006, p.35]
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  12. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    70
    It's a Western miniseries with impeccable pedigree, memorable characters, breathtaking cinematography and a story that seems almost as if it had been put together by a committee.
  13. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    70
    While "Broken Trail" is plot driven and not without action, it is most of all a languid elegy about the olden days on the Western ranges.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    60
    "Broken Trail" is not as well written or compelling as "Lonesome Dove," but Mr. Duvall brings an earthy believability to even the most plodding lines.
  15. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    While this "Trail" ain't exactly broken, some judicious editing could have fixed it.
  16. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    60
    We've seen all these characters countless times before in movie and TV westerns, but the actors give them distinction here.

Awards & Rankings

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#15 Best TV Season of 2006
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#55 Most Discussed TV Season of 2006

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User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 51 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 51
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 51
  3. Negative: 4 out of 51
  1. BernhardW
    Jan 20, 2008
    10
    wonderfull epic film adventure.. Story great, pictures wonderfull, and people so much to love. thats the stuff keeping sole up. regards bernd
  2. HenryE
    May 22, 2007
    10
    It's a beautiful and moving film, a masterpiece. Robert Duvall is truley a great actor.
  3. JuanaG.
    Oct 29, 2006
    10
    When will BROKEN TRAIL with ROBERT DUVALL air again and on which CHANNEL?
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