"Dances With Wolves" has the kind of vision and ambition that is rare in movies today. It is not a formula movie, but a thoughtful, carefully observed story. It is a Western at a time when the Western is said to be dead.
A grand, sweeping epic with inarguably noble intentions and arresting cinematography, but one whose center, arguably, is not as weighty as it should be. A grand, sweeping journey with graphic violence. Read Common Sense Media's Dances with Wolves review, age rating, and parents guide. [Dances With Wolves] packed with action, emotion, romance, laughter and an insight into a half-lost culture, is one heck of a beautiful movie.
John Dunbar is a Civil War veteran, exiled to a remote outpost to keep an eye on the Sioux Indians. Alienated from his own, Dunbar befriends and eventually joins the Sioux. "Dances with Wolves" is the movie which can be characterized as the effective visual effort which addresses the aspects of the different culture of the Lakota Indians. It's well-done, exciting, and truly emotional. It's Kevin Costner's best film,for none of his other's can beat it. Dances With Wolves is an EXCELLENT movie that accurately portrays the times. That being said, it's not for kids.
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The violence is graphic and, at times, perpetrated because of racism, ignorance, or barbarity. With Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Dunbar (Costner) who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and of his dealings with a group of Lakota.
For the first time the West was shown as it really was, the corny, unrealistic films which you could often see on television were shown up for what they were, good stories which used the west as a setting for the story to take place. Dances with Wolves, which gave Costner the triple hat of performer, producer, and director, was one of the most ambitious and impressive debuts of any novice film maker in the past three decades. Peter Travers Peter Travers Film Critic. @petertravers Follow Peter Travers's Most Recent Stories E arly on in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, a disturbed military bigwig tells Costner's Lt. Movie reviews for Dances With Wolves.