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

  • 80
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    What's important is that Major Dundee, not a great movie but a great star-driven, big budget 1965 studio western, is back in all its fractured glory and confidence. Read full review

  • 75
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    If you want to see the missing link between John Wayne's squint and Clint Eastwood's sneer, look no further than Charlton Heston in Major Dundee. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Expanded, Major Dundee is still a mess of great scenes sprinkled among some fairly monotonous action. Read full review

  • 75
    Christian Science Monitor | David Sterritt

    It's not a masterpiece, but its story of Civil War enemies banding together for battle against Indian warriors and French soldiers packs an occasional wallop. Read full review

  • 70
    Salon.com | Stephanie Zacharek

    As flawed as it is, Major Dundee maintains its dignity in the face of the injustices that were done to it. Ripped-up and ragtag, it still holds its head high. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    It's hard to imagine "The Wild Bunch" having the depth and grace it did without Peckinpah having this experience to draw on, and for that masterful film alone we're grateful to have Major Dundee back among the living again. Read full review

  • 63
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    The movie still isn't great, but it's an important remonstration to that oldest of all studio-system curses: the producer who thinks he's more creative than the director. Read full review

  • 58
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer | William Arnold

    Sadly, it's still a plodding affair that's low on plausible character motivation and compelling action scenes, and it's still not much of a showcase for its star, Charlton Heston. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    More evident than ever the film is inherently a deeply flawed work that was far from fully realized in both script and shooting. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | Michael Atkinson

    What rescues Major Dundee in the end from its many conflicts and unresolved passions is Heston. Read full review

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