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Director: Kevin Costner

Kevin Costner directed three films reviewed here: The Postman (1997), Open Range (2003) and Dances with Wolves (1990). They span 1990 to 2003. Open Range (2003) rates highest at 8 out of 10, The Postman (1997) lowest at 5.

Kevin Costner as Union lieutenant John Dunbar stands alone on a vast Great Plains landscape with a wolf in the distance.

Dances with Wolves (1990) Review

Dances with Wolves (1990) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Costner directed a three-hour Western largely in Lakota with subtitles, which nobody wanted financed, and it made four hundred million dollars and beat Goodfellas. The film is…

Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall stand in a muddy street during the climactic gunfight scene from Open Range. TITLE: Open

Open Range (2003) Review

Open Range (2003) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Costner directed a slow, patient Western about two cattlemen who decide to kill a rancher, and then staged the best gunfight in the genre's last forty years. It…

Kevin Costner in a postal uniform stands in a post-apocalyptic landscape with mountains and dead towns in the background.

The Postman (1997) Review

The Postman (1997) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Costner turned a satirical novel about a con man into a three hour sincere epic about American institutions, and ended it with a statue of himself. It took…