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

  • 100
    TV Guide |

    Hoffman is uncharacteristically charming in a demanding role; the supporting cast is uniformly excellent, particularly Chief Dan George as a befuddled patriarch who takes the supernatural as a matter of course. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Arthur Penn's Little Big Man is an endlessly entertaining attempt to spin an epic in the form of a yarn. Read full review

  • 90
    Time |

    It also accomplishes that rarest achievement, the breathing of life into an ossified art form. The '70s has its first great epic. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    Little Big Man is a sort of vaudeville show, framed in fictional biography, loaded with sketches of varying degrees of serious and burlesque humor, and climaxed by the Indian victory over Gen George A. Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876. Read full review

  • 60
    Empire | Kim Newman

    Episodic western with a great performance from Hoffman. Read full review

  • 60
    Chicago Reader | Dave Kehr

    The dual point of view is used effectively, though it's less valid as social criticism (where Penn's observations tend toward facile revisionism) than as an index of the uncertainty that characterizes most of Penn's heroes. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Vincent Canby

    The film tries to cover too much ground, even though Calder Willingham's script eliminates or telescopes events and characters from the Berger novel. Read full review

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