Once cool Magnificent Seven now a middling septet
by Stephanie Zacharek
Sep 24, 2016
2 minutes
THERE ARE AT LEAST SEVEN REASONS TO REMAKE The Magnificent Seven, John Sturges’ larkish 1960 western, itself a retooling of Akira Kurosawa’s rousingly elegant 1954 epic Seven Samurai: at any given time, there are always at least seven young-to-middle-aged male actors ready to strap on holsters and peer out from beneath rakishly tilted cowboy hats. Because
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