"It's a magnificent throwback to a time when filmmakers found all sorts of ways to refashion Hollywood's oldest and most durable genre.... Whether it directly resembles them or not, this impeccable new picture is at one with the adventurous spirit that produced such films as McCabe & Mrs Miller, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Bad Company, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, Jeremiah Johnson, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Days of Heaven, The Long Riders and, yes, Heaven's Gate, rather than with anything being made today."