Dances with Wolves
Dances with Wolves centers on the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians. The movie tells the story of a Union Army lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a group of Lakota Indians.
25 October 1940, Cold Lake Reserve, Alberta, Canada
28 April 1976
12 February 1952, New York City, New York, USA
28 December 1977, South Dakota, USA
24 August 1949, Bangor, Maine, USA
1946, Morton, Minnesota, USA
15 April 1984, Los Angeles County, California, USA
9 March 1959, Nebraska, USA
21 June 1954, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
17 August 1936, Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, Roberts County, South Dakota, USA
14 September 1959, New York City, New York, USA
28 April 1952, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
January 13, 2014
Dances With Wolves runs a fraction more than three hours but justifies its running time.
January 13, 2014
To say this movie is sporadically artful is to say that it is more interesting than most films around these days. But it is still a failure, if a glorious one.
February 21, 2015
[Costner] makes it a true human story, portraying the range of emotions from tragedy to joy.
February 22, 2013
Dances With Wolves is a clear-eyed vision. Authentic as an Edward Curtis photograph, lyrical as a George Catlin oil or a Karl Bodmer landscape, this is a film with a pure ring to it.
February 21, 2015
[Dances With Wolves] is so evocative of the sweep and lyricism of the American West that it could be pegged as the cinematic equivalent of a Frederic Remington painting.
February 22, 2013
Costner tells a personal story that never loses touch with the vast Western spaces encompassing and defining it. Dances With Wolves is an epic that breathes. And it's a beauty.
January 13, 2014
This collective array of talent has yielded a western that is at once original and traditional. Dances With Wolves looks back to the masterworks of the past and, with its relevance to our present, it deserves to be ranked with them.
January 13, 2014
In an age when most movies are made by people who used to shoot commercials or music videos, the panoramic vistas of Dances with Wolves are an enjoyable reminder of the potential of the big screen.
January 13, 2014
A slow-moving but well-acted western.
December 05, 2016
It has greatness in it. It also has some distinct, even major flaws. But it's rather easy to get swept up in it.
January 13, 2014
The important issues raised by the film- centered on the cultural, racial and moral struggle that took place on the American frontier-are glossed over in favor of a juvenile fantasy of male bonding around the campfire.
