Ride with the Devil 1999

Critics score:
63 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The film is less than the sum of its parts. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A sublime contemplation of the American character at a particularly revealing time in our struggle to become a nation. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Oddly distant and uninvolving for such a blazing subject. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The cast is attractive and proficient at handling the fancy dialogue the filmmakers offer up as period vernacular. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Unengaging! Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The intriguing (if not always successful) result is an oddly contemplative picture about a horribly bellicose time. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Visually arresting but dramatically flat. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: From a technical perspective, Ride With the Devil is nearly perfect. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A film that would inspire useful discussion in a history class, but for ordinary moviegoers, it's slow and forbidding. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Even if this isn't the best Civil War film ever made, it's one of the most interesting and least dogmatic. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: An impressive cast energizes Lee's smartly balanced themes of innocence and treachery. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Lee appears to have been torn between making a character study and an action movie, so both elements get short shrift. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Admirably expressive. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Given the flat performances and Schamus's overexplanatory script, Ride With the Devil has the feel of undergraduate costume drama. Read more