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The Salvation

2014

Kristian Levring

Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Michael Raymond-James ...

6.4

6,789

Western. Drama In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

	Author	Review
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Mikkelsen's icy stare, and a strong finale, make the film worth a go. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Employing a strong visual style that evinces a great affinity for the genre (...) the director also supplies a bleak, forbidding -- one might say fundamentalist Nordic -- temperament"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Lack of mystery doesn't hurt the movie, but rather fits a story as elemental as this, one that at times resembles an illustrated list of genre codes and conventions."	POS
United States	Stephanie Merry The Washington Post	"Surprises are few and far between in 'The Salvation', but for Western fans looking for a fix, it'll do the trick. (...) Rating: ★★ (out offour)"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Kristian Levring (“The King Is Alive”) has abandoned all trace of his involvement with the Dogma 95 movement, delivering a highly stylized widescreen revenge picture"	POS

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