Review of Rio Bravo (1959) by Richard Brody for New Yorker — 22 Apr 2013
The movie is simultaneously an apogee of the classic Western style, with its principled violence in defense of just law, and an eccentrically hyperbolic work of modernism, which yokes both bumptious erotic comedy and soul-searing rawness to the mission.
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This review of Rio Bravo (1959) was written by Richard Brody and published by New Yorker on 22 Apr 2013.
Rio Bravo has generally received very positive reviews.
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