Masculinity in 3:10 to Yuma

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Carol A. MacCurdy in a professor in the Department of English at California Polytechnic State University, and serves as one of the managing editors for Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction.

Notes

1. In his New York Times review, A. O. Scott argues that the “confessional moments” “bring to the surface themes that would have been more interesting if they had been left half-buried.”

2. Roger Ebert says that Charlie is “half in love with Wade,” Peter Travers in Rolling Stone, that he has a “man-crush on boss,” and David Denby in the New Yorker that he is “a dandified acolyte in buckskins.”

3. Some samples of this sort of criticism: McCarthy in Variety, “aspects of the physical action and psychological motivation remain murky and forced,” Michael Sragow in Baltimore Sun, “Mangold always shows you something fascinating, even if he doesn't always succeed at making it seem organic,” Ty Burr in Boston Globe, “in a twist that works in a short story and that you still may buy in a 1950's film, but it makes little to no sense in a post-Clint Eastwood universe, at least without the proper set-up.”