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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Movie Habit (892) on 29 Aug 2013

Has its moments, but at 2 1/2 hours, movie tries to do far too much…

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By Brian Henry Martin (100) for UTV (100) on 14 Aug 2013

The Lone Ranger is a noisy, never-ending nonsensical mess, which easily tops the flops in the silly season of summer blockbusters…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 11 Aug 2013

The first genuinely characterful action blockbuster of the summer: both a big, beautifully realised throwback to Hollywood Boy's Own storytelling…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 11 Aug 2013

Yes, this $250million reboot is overlong, over indulgent and tonally uneven, but it's also stuffed full of deadpan comedy, breakneck thrills…

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By Ed Whitfield (493) for The Ooh Tray (482) on 08 Aug 2013

If the movies have no ambition, nothing to say and no desire to tell new stories, should they continue? Jerry Bruckheimer, I await your answer…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for Irish Times (1,391) on 08 Aug 2013

It's no sort of masterpiece. But The Lone Ranger is a good deal less dreadful than advance word has suggested…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 07 Aug 2013

Gallops across our skulls for two and a half hours, pounding them into the same kind of desert as that on screen: a barren flatland with occasional…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 07 Aug 2013

Limp and lifeless, this overlong and undercooked would-be blockbuster cannot focus on either the hard-edged realities or the magical mysteries…

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By Rob Daniel (202) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 07 Aug 2013

Verbinski clearly knows how to stage action, with outstanding train-based set-pieces bracketing the film…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 07 Aug 2013

An enjoyable Western adventure enlivened by strong performances, stunning location work and some exciting action set-pieces…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 07 Aug 2013

Verbinski has surely modified this film's running time using dastardly new temporal-distortion technology, so that each of its 149 minutes…

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By Ali Gray (310) for TheShiznit.co.uk (506) on 06 Aug 2013

The Lone Ranger is a curio on a gigantic scale; a colossal, misunderstood mistake that will win you over with weird if only you'll let it…

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By Rob Carnevale (227) for The List (2,018) on 06 Aug 2013

It's perhaps no coincidence that the film ends up on a runaway locomotive as this feels like a train wreck throughout…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 05 Aug 2013

It's among the most captivating failures you will see this year…

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By Andy Lea (545) for Daily Star (403) on 04 Aug 2013

Gorgeously shot, brilliantly acted and recklessly ambitious…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 04 Aug 2013

As Eric Morecambe once said, I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 22 Jul 2013

British audiences may well embrace the film's oddness - and blatant anti-American stance - which while not always successfully executed, means…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue (704) on 21 Jul 2013

the film misses an opportunity to put a fresh spin on the material because it lacks any charm or sagacity underneath its cartoonish surface…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 16 Jul 2013

Stuck with a character they can't really transform or darken, they instead turn him into a galloping joke in a white hat and black mask, which…

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By David 'Mad Dog' Bradley (480) for Rip It Up (249) on 15 Jul 2013

This is also notable for a sympathetic depiction of Amerindians that attempts to appease those who might be offended by Tonto…

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