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===Critical response=== With [[McCarthyism]] in full force at the time of release, the movie establishment did not embrace ''Salt of the Earth''. [[Pauline Kael]], who reviewed it for ''[[Sight and Sound]]'', panned it as a simplistic left-wing "morality play" and said it was "as clear a piece of Communist [[propaganda]] as we have had in many years."<ref name=Lorence_book_review/> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' praised several elements in the film but called it "a propaganda picture which belongs in union halls rather than theatres."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=''Salt of the Earth'' |magazine=Variety |url=https://variety.com/1953/film/reviews/salt-of-the-earth-1200417641/ |date=31 December 1953}}</ref> [[Bosley Crowther]], film critic for ''[[The New York Times]]'', reviewed the picture somewhat favorably, both for its direction and screenplay:{{blockquote|''Salt of the Earth'' is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican-Americans with whom it deals....But the real dramatic crux of the picture is the stern and bitter conflict within the membership of the union. It is the issue of whether the women shall have equality of expression and of strike participation with the men. And it is along this line of contention that Michael Wilson's tautly muscled script develops considerable personal drama, raw emotion and power.<ref>Crowther, Bosley. ''[[The New York Times]]'', film review, [https://www.nytimes.com/1954/03/15/archives/the-screen-in-review-salt-of-the-earth-opens-at-the-grande-filming.html "''Salt of the Earth'' Opens at the Grande -- Filming Marked by Violence,"] March 15, 1954. Accessed: April 28, 2019.</ref>}} As anti-Communist fervor waned, the movie started to be judged on its merits. By 2021, the review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 100% of critics (based on thirteen reviews) had given the movie a positive rating.<ref>[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/salt_of_the_earth/ ''Salt of the Earth''] at [[Rotten Tomatoes]]. Accessed: 7 October 2024.</ref>
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