Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre.
- , TIME Magazine, May 23, 2011
This is a hard-hitting item, ably directed, splendidly lensed, neatly acted, which has all the ingredients wanted by action fans and then some.
- Variety Staff, Variety, March 26, 2009
A Fistful of Dollars may lack the mournful intensity and Shakespearian comedy of the later Leone classics, but as an action film it holds up brilliantly.
- Urban Cinefile Critics, Urban Cinefile, October 18, 2008
From Clint Eastwood's iconic performance to Ennio Morricone's unforgettable (and much-parodied) musical score, A Fistful of Dollars (****) took the western down trails it had never explored.
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 22, 2006
Though far less operatic and satisfying than Leone's later work, his first spaghetti Western with Eastwood still looks stylish, if a little rough at the edges.
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out, January 26, 2006
Egregiously synthetic but engrossingly morbid, violent film.
- Bosley Crowther, New York Times, May 09, 2005
- Shannon J. Harvey, Sunday Times (Australia), February 04, 2003
Really little more than a series of loosely connected shoot-outs -- but, as Sergio Leone proved, there can be a lot of fun in that.
- James Berardinelli, ReelViews, January 01, 2000
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