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

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2024

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

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 5, 2024

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

Full Review | May 10, 2022

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

Full Review | Apr 7, 2022

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

Full Review | Mar 29, 2022

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.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2019

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.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2018

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 27, 2015

In spite of its age and the fact that its 145-minute mass is sometimes dragging, Oklahoma! hollers itself home as a handsome piece of entertainment.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2015

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

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 11, 2011

Folksy and sentimental.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Nov 1, 2007

It's a watchable, if hardly terrific, rendering of an innovative Broadway landmark.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2007

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

Full Review | Nov 1, 2007

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

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2007

Pretty fun in spite of itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2007

A solid Hollywood landmark.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2006

A brilliant musical that still looks fresh today.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2006

Efficient but not exciting.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Mar 31, 2006