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The Magnificent Seven

Justice has a number.

2016 · 2h 12m · PG-13 Action, Adventure, Western
Directed by Antoine Fuqua

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Overview

Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.

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64%
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Rotten

The Magnificent Seven is an awkward milestone in Hollywood's ongoing and urgent conversation about representation.

Alison Willmore, BuzzFeed News
Rotten

The most rousing moment in The Magnificent Seven comes after the action has already concluded, when the credits roll to the emphatic accompaniment of Elmer Bernstein's iconic 1960 score.

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Rotten

Traces of real history are hard to spot in Fuqua's Western, but there isn't much evidence of a real Western, either. You sense that an entire genre, far from being revitalized, is being plundered for handy tips.

Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh

If body count is what you go to Westerns for, by all means drift into this one's corral.

Bob Mondello, NPR
Rotten

Fuqua's made two clean piles separating good and evil, and in doing so, he's thrown away the film's point.

Amy Nicholson, MTV

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