Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Mar 2, 2024 3.5/4

The soundtrack is exceptional, and Gloria Grahame swipes a few scenes as Ado Annie, the girl who just “cain’t say no.”

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Grant Watson Fiction Machine Feb 5, 2024 7/10

This film is bright, bold, and enthusiastic. It is the 1955 equivalent of a studio blockbuster: big-screen entertainment for the masses.

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Ronald B. Rogers Village Voice May 10, 2022

A visit to your local theatre will convince you that Oklahoma! is a fresh and lively as ever.

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Rachel Wagner Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) Apr 7, 2022

Darker than you remember which makes it intriguing. Plus great songs

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Eugene Archer Film Culture Mar 29, 2022

Its prospective audiences face a long and slow three hours (with intermission) which are completely lacking in pace or style.

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Clyde Gilmour Maclean's Magazine Oct 24, 2019

The Rodgers-and-Hammerstein stage smasheroo has been translated into a dandy musical, weakened rather than strengthened by an overly grandiose treatment of the ballet numbers.

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Isabel Quigly The Spectator Jul 20, 2018

There is something to be said for those horrible continental intervals in the middle of films, with advertisements and lights up and other interruptions : at least in the case of long, familiar, exuberant and therefore exhausting musicals.

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Tony Sloman Radio Times Oct 27, 2015 4/5

This rousing film version of the massively influential and, in its day, revolutionary Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical preserves both the magnificent songs and the key Agnes DeMille choreography.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Apr 11, 2011 C

The wrong director, Fred Zinnemann, who doesn't have any sense for the genre, was assigned to this musical, but the tunes are glorious.

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Philip French Observer (UK) Nov 1, 2007

Folksy and sentimental.

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Variety Staff Variety Nov 1, 2007

The wide screen used for the Todd-AO process adds production scope and visual grandeur, capturing a vista of blue sky and green prairie that can be breathtaking.

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Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Nov 1, 2007

The film heaves and sputters from one indifferently rendered number to the next.

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David Mattin BBC.com Nov 1, 2007 4/5

50 years on there's still an infectious charm about Oklahoma!

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Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Jan 15, 2007 3/4

Pretty fun in spite of itself.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Aug 26, 2006 3/5

A solid Hollywood landmark.

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Patrick Peters Empire Magazine Aug 25, 2006 4/5

A brilliant musical that still looks fresh today.

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Susan Granger www.susangranger.com Aug 15, 2006 3/5

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Mar 31, 2006 B

Efficient but not exciting.

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Wally Hammond Time Out Jan 26, 2006

My favourite is the odd cast singing 'The Farmer and the Cowman should be friends', a sentiment I have long believed in.

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Nov 11, 2005 8/10

...Zinnemann manages to keep the pace moving in the right direction, and any small concerns one may have diminish quickly in light of the rest of the movie's delights.

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