A Night in Old Mexico 2013

Sara Stewart, New York Post: Unfortunately, there's a cliched bag-of-money plot surrounding Red's hell-with-old-age night out, which would have made a more unique movie on its own. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: A Tex-Mex-flavored shaggy-dog story that finds Duvall perfectly cast as a robustly cantankerous South Texas rancher determined to have one last fling south of the border. Read more

David Ehrlich, AV Club: Though A Night In Old Mexico won't be Duvall's last screen performance, it's as fitting a farewell as he's likely to get. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Formulaic and often hard to swallow, the picture offers little beyond the familiar pleasures of Duvall's old-coot mode. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: This poky, cliched, slackly told picture, directed by Emilio Aragon, would've felt dated a few decades ago; now it feels like a downright relic. Read more

Michael Nordine, L.A. Weekly: It's hard not to wonder if Duvall got passed over for a role in Last Vegas and, not to be outdone by that snake Kevin Kline, decided to make the Western version instead. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Not a second of this feels real, but at least we see Duvall croon "Mexicali Rose." Read more

Daniel M. Gold, New York Times: The director Emilio Aragon wisely trains the camera on Mr. Duvall. "A Night in Old Mexico" is his baby, and he rocks it. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: The movie doesn't have the same kind of emotional depth that Duvall and Wittliff managed to pull off decades ago. Worse, the dialogue often sounds stilted. Read more