The acting gem in this two-and-a-half-hour epic is the hair-raising rivalry between Maguire and a feral young killer.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2020

Like too many other young men in too many other wars, Maguire's Jake Roedel sees too much, and grows up too fast.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2011

The Lawrence massacre provides no catharsis, only a sense of despair at the state of the human condition and at young men turned psychopaths.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 1, 2010

the main characters, despite their various complexities, are never particularly compelling and therefore fail to draw us into (or help us make sense of) the film's abstract themes

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2010

Bucolic scenes of men at rest in beautiful wild landscapes and families gathered over meals in manors and homesteads are shattered by battles...

Full Review | Apr 26, 2010

'It ain't right; it ain't wrong; it just is.' That line, in a nutshell, pretty much sums up Ride with the Devil.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 21, 2007

This isn't the usual Civil War tale of learning to respect a man regardless of his race.... It's about how true freedom comes from love, from respect, and from self-sacrifice.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jan 15, 2005

Lee is a master storyteller.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2004

Sustains a standard of realism that can induce extraordinary tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 23, 2004

Does for Civil War movies what 1991's Mobsters did for gangster movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2003

Lee appears to have been torn between making a character study and an action movie, so both elements get short shrift.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 6, 2002

Lacking the charisma of a truly great film... Ride with the Devil manages to succeed more in principle than it does in the moment.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 6, 2002

Lee has cast his film with the cream of rising actors.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2002

The intriguing (if not always successful) result is an oddly contemplative picture about a horribly bellicose time.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2002

This rip-roaring adventure story presents a little known slice of Civil War history,

Full Review | Mar 4, 2002

There's absolutely no emotional or sexual heat between Maguire and Jewel; they seem like kids playacting at grand passion.

Full Review | Jan 9, 2002

Neither outstandingly good, nor bad. It's a reliable choice for the historical action keener.

Full Review | Original Score: 67/100 | Jul 24, 2001

While the movie intermittently revs up for some showy combat scenes, its real mtier is a texture of fine-grained observation that brings history to life on the molecular level.

Full Review | Apr 17, 2001