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==Reception== [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' gave the film a mostly positive review, praising the main cast for "several fine performances" and Hawks' direction for "credible substance and detail." He only found a "big let-down" in the Indian wagon train attack scene, lamenting that the film had "run smack into 'Hollywood' in the form of a glamorized female, played by Joanne Dru."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |date=October 1, 1948 |title=The Screen in Review |journal=[[The New York Times]] |page= 31 }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "a spectacle of sweeping grandeur" with "a first rate script," adding, "John Wayne has his best assignment to date and he makes the most of it."<ref>{{cite journal |date=July 14, 1948 |title=Red River |journal=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page= 12 }}</ref> [[John McCarten]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' found the film "full of fine Western shots," with the main cast's performances "all first-rate."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McCarten |first=John |date=October 9, 1948 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |page= 111 }}</ref> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' called the film "an epic of such sweep and magnitude that it deserves to take its place as one of the finest pictures of its type ever to come out of Hollywood."<ref>{{cite journal |date=July 17, 1948 |title='Red River' with John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan and Joanne Dru |journal=[[Harrison's Reports]] |page= 114 }}</ref> On review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]] the film holds an approval rating of 100% rating, based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 8.8/10.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_river/ |title=Red River |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=June 18, 2024 }}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] considered it one of the greatest Western films of all time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-red-river-1948 |title=Great Movie; Red River |work=rogerebert.com |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=March 1, 1998 |access-date=July 22, 2017 }}</ref> This movie was the last movie shown in the 1971 Peter Bogdanovich motion picture, ''[[The Last Picture Show]]''. In 1990, ''Red River'' was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the [[Library of Congress]] and was selected for preservation in the [[National Film Registry]]. ''Red River'' was selected by the [[American Film Institute]] as the 5th greatest Western of all time in the [[AFI's 10 Top 10]] list in 2008.
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