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The Last Samurai (2003)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "...a handsome, well-crafted production..." more... B   Boston Globe "With Tom Cruise in heroic role, Last Samurai is a first-rate epic." more... B   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Its power is compromised only by an ending that sheepishly backs away from what the film is really about." more... B   Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington "A stunning spectacle of cultural violence and a loving tribute to the great Japanese samurai movies..." more... B   Cincinnati Enquirer Margaret A. McGurk "This movie is a thing of beauty, with the substance to match its style." more... A   E! Online "While some of the slo-mo action sequences and flashbacks could've been trimmed, the history is on point, the battle scenes are masterful..." more... B   filmcritic.com Aaron Lazenby "For some reason, Cruise seems to have confused the art of acting with the act of looking at something really hard." more... C   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "An epic East-meets-West action-drama that stirs the imagination." more... A   New York Post Lou Lumenick "...a pandering epic that's as phony as it is condescending." more... C   New York Times Elvis Mitchell "The uneven Samurai is a can-do movie that's far more effective at communicating emotion in bigger scenes than in more intimate ones." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "...The Last Samurai already has a spot reserved on my end-of-the-year Top 10 list." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...the script lays on hokey narration and bombastic dialogue." more... C   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "Made at a time of global anxiety, The Last Samurai is all about America's fear of its own power." more... B+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...filled with exhilarating, gruesomely beautiful battle sequences and stylish nods to the great Kurosawa films..." more... B+ USA Today Mike Clark "...it never recovers from its failure to grip or engage in the early going." more... C   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)