“[T]he kind of movie that's best to see on a big screen, where the size of the sky and the colors of the land can do their work”

- Roger Ebert

“Faced with a choice of blunt instruments with which to beat a good book into a bad movie, director Billy Bob Thornton chooses heavy, random, arty imagery and a leaden pace to thwack All the Pretty Horses”

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

All the Pretty Horses

Based on Cormac McCarthy's novel, two young men leave their Texas home for Mexico, meeting up with a hotheaded cowboy and finding work and love on a Mexican ranch. Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Lucas Black, Rubén Blades, Penélope Cruz, Robert Patrick, Bruce Dern, Sam Shepard. Director: Billy Bob Thornton (2000, PG-13)