You can see how this movie could have been jacked up into a one-level action picture, but what makes it special is how Thornton modulates the material.Read Full Review »
80
Time: Richard Schickel
A perfectly coherent, handsomely rendered couple of hours, animated in particular by Damon's good performance -- shrewd, innocent, angry, wistful and, above all, likable.Read Full Review »
70
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Thornton, writer-director of the superb "Slingblade," has a gift for depicting down-and-dirty scenes among men. And when our three principal characters go riding from Texas to Mexico, this is the best part of the movie.Read Full Review »
70
The New York Times: Dana Stevens
The movie, for all its prettiness, manages to be shallow and portentous at the same time.Read Full Review »
70
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
In an odd way Pretty Horses has been too faithful to the spirit of this somber, fatalistic, melancholy romance, too much a stubborn ode to stoicism, to light any emotional fires.Read Full Review »
63
Boston Globe: Jay Carr
To paraphrase Andre Malraux, it invokes but it doesn't always supply, doesn't course strongly enough with the book's themes of blood and earth and dislocation.Read Full Review »
A movie of arresting pieces that don't harmonize into a satisfying whole.Read Full Review »
50
Village Voice: Amy Taubin
The film is too eager to please and falls short of the novel's tragic dimension.Read Full Review »
50
USA Today: Mike Clark
As this year's literary adaptations go, Horses comes a lot closer to being a truly bad movie than "The Perfect Storm" did, yet it would be hard to argue that the two are not the year's most disappointing in terms of trampled hopes.Read Full Review »
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