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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelSo self-conscious about its themes that nothing in the storytelling occurs naturally.
- 50Time OutTime OutVisually superb, though: a doomed attempt to make Fordian metaphors speak a language of corrupting, intimate anxiety.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasHandsome but overly studied. [09 Mar 1986, p.5]
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)New York Magazine (Vulture)[Pakula] has made the dreary mistake of reducing a half-dead genre to its basic elements, stripping away color, detail, humor--everything that makes it possible to regard a Western as a pleasure rather than an ordeal. [13 Nov 1978, p.128]
- 40Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldEach new attempt to revive the Western seems to plunge the patient into a deeper coma. Arriving on the heels of Jack Nicholson's Goin' South, Alan J. Pakula's cataleptic Comes a Horseman suggests a conspiracy to kick the poor old Western while it's down. [25 Oct 1978, p.D13]