87
Metascore
12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe second, and finest, of Ford's cavalry trilogy. [17 Aug 2007, p.C7]
- 100EmpireWilliam ThomasEmpireWilliam ThomasA beautifully presented tale of love, honor and duty from a master film-maker.
- 100Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasAs splendid as John Wayne is in these films, the elegiac She Wore a Yellow Ribbon provides him with one of his finest roles. [19 May 1996, p.72]
- 90Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrIn Ford’s superbly creative hands, it becomes perhaps the only avant-garde film ever made about the importance of tradition.
- 90The Observer (UK)The Observer (UK)This, you feel, is really a story with roots in the nation, not just a fiction snatched out of the busy air. [16 Apr 1950, p.6]
- 83The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsFort Apache and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon both dwell on the problems of leadership, balancing out a respect for classic American frontier virtues with a less generous assessment of how those virtues were applied.
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherIn this big Technicolored Western Mr. Ford has superbly achieved a vast and composite illustration of all the legends of the frontier cavalryman.
- 70Time OutTime OutThe centrepiece of Ford's cavalry trilogy (flanked by Fort Apache and Rio Grande) and a film of both elegiac sentiment and occasionally over-eloquent sentimentality, structured around a series of ritual incidents rather than narrative conflicts.
- 70The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelLike Ford's other large-scale, elegiac Westerns of this period, it's not a plain action movie but a pictorial film with slow spots and great set pieces.