[Five Fingers for Marseilles] is ripe with indignation, injustice, righteous violence and, ultimately, a shootout of cosmic resonance.

A brutal but thoughtful film invoking subtle social allegory, "Marseilles" demonstrates both the durability and elasticity of the genre.

There are no thrills in this western yarn, just a mounting series of tragedies that are by turns frustrating and numbing.

This is not simply a distinctive western; it is a masterful one.