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Let Him Go

2020

Thomas Bezucha

Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Jeffrey Donovan, Booboo Stewart ...

6.5

4,600

Thriller. Drama Costner and Lane star as retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife Margaret who, following the loss of their son, leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.

	Media	Author	Review
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"[A] surprisingly gripping and moving modern western (...) This is Lane’s movie, hands down, and the actress is never less than magnetic (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"[Diane Lane and Kevin Costner] give it their all in a genre film that fuses suspense with honest emotion (...) A touchingly bone-weary romance steeped in vengeance"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A quiet, adult drama interrupted by genre-pic contrivances (...) A heartfelt, handsomely made but unconvincing tonal mash-up"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A swift entertainment, claustrophobic and anxious in its depiction of an impossible, frustrating situation, and satisfying in its gnarly climax"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[While the director] lacks the chops to tell this story with the suspense it demands (...) he fully understands the symbolic power of seeing these actors lose something they can never get back"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"Thanks to their feminine fire, 'Let Him Go' raises the bar on a cliched tale of vengeance by mining a core of truth about mothers through the ages"
		Scott Mendelson Forbes	"Anchored by terrific star turns from Diane Lane and Kevin Costner, the intense and complex 'Let Him Go' is a very good cinematic thriller."
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Between its taut script and some indelible performances, 'Let Him Go' succeeds both as a low-key character study and as a breathlessly intense thriller"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"[Diane Lane] is the film’s driving force, but her character is stubborn to the point of being unreasonable, her brusqueness unexplained"
		Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"While it’s hard to shake the awareness that the whole movie exists to set up violent catharsis, it’s hard to deny that it has just enough sadness and regret to back it up."
		Ian Freer Empire	"It all feels forced and inauthentic (...) 'Let Him Go' starts languid and builds to a tonally at-odds finale, with its stars looking curiously unengaged (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"A polite adaptation of a bestselling novel transforms into a gory B-movie with a devilishly good performance from Lesley Manville (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Lewis Knight Mirror	"A moving and gripping Western with particularly strong performances from Diane Lane [and Lesley Manville] (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Christy Lemire rogerebert.com	"Understated in its quiet rhythms and vast beauty, it’s also fortified with strong performances and, eventually, punctuated by shocking moments of violence (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"This is, by far, the director’s tensest and most brutal movie ever, and he’s a natural (...) It’s a gripping thriller (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

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