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"James Mangold's movies include Cop Land (1997), Girl, Interrupted (1999) and Walk the Line (2005), and this is by far his most sustained and evocative work," writes David Denby in the New Yorker. "[M]uch of this Western is tense and intricately wrought, and I found myself settling into its stern logic and its physical splendor with a grateful sigh. The old rituals are so far removed from our glib media world that they seem as solid as the hills and boulders of Arizona itself."
But for Newsweek's David Ansen, 3:10 to Yuma is "hardly going to breathe new life to a genre whose demise has been reported for at least 30 years. What this version offers is the chance to watch Russell Crowe and Christian Bale - two of the more charismatic, macho leading men around - duke it out psychologically, while another fine but less well-known intensity artist, Ben Foster, steals whatever scenes are left."
Updated through 9/4.
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