“Broken Lance” is a well-told and brilliantly directed Western that also features great acting, impactful drama, and lots of highly immersive cinematography

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2023

What is also noteworthy is the laborious dutifulness with which CinemaScope is used in Broken Lance, which gives the mise-en-scène a rigidity that makes for a certain dryness. Such severity, as one might guess, is not for me.

Full Review | Jan 5, 2022

It's a gripping, framed familial saga of intergenerational misunderstandings, racial hang-ups, and eventually even a court-room drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2020

The camera work, in improved widescreen CinemaScope, is handsome.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2019

Very much a product of Hollywood studio system in the 1950's, but it's also a testament to just how good that studio system could be.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Spencer Tracy in particular gives a ferocious late career performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 28, 2018

Although its theme is not original... Edward Dmytryk... has made his copy-book characters as fresh as his panoramas.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2018

This sturdy Western is basically William Shakespeare by way of Joseph L. Mankiewicz.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 28, 2015

There may be debates about Yordan's Oscar-winning script, but Dmytryk's direction of this compelling Western is taut and the acting, especially by Tracy and Katy Jurado (Oscar-nominated), is superb.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 28, 2011

Broken Lance succeeds in capturing the brutal intensity of a disrupted family.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 26, 2009

Strong performances, ably augmented by Joe MacDonald's lovely 'Scope camerawork.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2006

It lifts its plot line from Joseph Mankiewicz's powerful 1949 House of Strangers.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 8, 2005

One of the earliest elegies to the dying of the West.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2005

O roteiro (vencedor do Oscar, acredite ou no) cheio de clichs; e o final, esquemtico. Katy Jurado foi indicada ao prmio aparentemente por dizer 'My hOsband' o tempo todo.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 25, 2003