It somehow succeeds in taking those pop-culture brand names like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and giving them human form.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Its egotistical, wishy-washy and otherwise flawed protagonists are no less heroic because they look -- and act -- like you and me. On the contrary, they are more so.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
Politics aside, this is a handsome film with orange skies to die for, or under, and a lovely score by Carter Burwell. The picture has some ponderous and snooze-worthy stretches, but it attains a certain melancholic grandeur, with the actors and crew fighting as desperately as Crockett and Bowie to make the best of a fated adventure.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Except for a handful of scenes, Hancock's film isn't good enough to be memorable. Neither is it bad enough to be entirely forgettable. It's just one of those compromised movies that makes one look forward to the director's cut.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
Thornton is excellent and now seems genetically incapable of being anything less than great in any role he takes.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The real struggle in The Alamo is between historic revisionism and Hollywood notions of sacrifice, and it's not much of a contest: Hollywood wins, as it did in John Wayne's sprawling, factually spurious 1960 film.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Never harmonizes into a cinematic experience any more resonant than the average, manly, why-we-fight pic, or coalesces into a stirring cry for freedom.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Along the way, not just the storytelling but the original intention has gotten muddled. You leave The Alamo uncertain of what you're meant to feel: is this a celebration of patriotic sacrifice or an illustration of war's futility?Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
The good news first: The Alamo is probably the most historically accurate depiction yet to reach the screen of the famous siege. The bad news is that "historically accurate" does not necessarily translate into "dramatically successful."Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
As directed by John Lee Hancock, it's dull, talky, and sometimes maudlin.Read Full Review »
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