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  • Dances With Wolves
  • Opened October 19, 1990 | Runtime:3 hr 1 min
  • PG-13
  • Information for parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+. Read More
  • Union Lieutenant Dunbar (Costner) takes a new assignment on the Western frontier, where he comes into contact with the Sioux tribe and gradually comes to identify with them, falling in love with one of their women (Mary McDonnell), hunting buffalo Read More
  • Cast: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
  • Director: Kevin Costner
  • Genres: Epic Western, Revisionist Western, Western, Indian Western

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Dances With Wolves Recent Fan Reviews

  • Must Go!

    Cool!

    This was excellent film. This had great Film Editing, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Screenplay, Director and wonderful Original Score.

Dances With Wolves Critic Reviews

Go Avg. Critic Score 72 out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Washington Post | Hal Hinson

    A gigantic achievement, an endowment of riches.

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This movie moves so confidently and looks so good it seems incredible that it's...

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Sheila Benson

    A clear-eyed vision. Authentic as an Edward Curtis photograph, lyrical as a...

  • 90
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Costner (with Michael Blake's screenplay) creates a vision so childlike, so...

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