Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Gorgeously stoic art film.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.

Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr

Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.

TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)

A massive, many-faceted film that continues to hold up, viewing after viewing.

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare. Matrix, schmatrix: This is the season's supreme party movie.

Variety by Staff (Not Credited)

A curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.