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Let Him Go

2020

Thomas Bezucha

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

6.5

4,595

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.

	Author	Review
United States	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)"	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A quiet, adult drama interrupted by genre-pic contrivances (...) A heartfelt, handsomely made but unconvincing tonal mash-up"	NEU
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"A swift entertainment, claustrophobic and anxious in its depiction of an impossible, frustrating situation, and satisfying in its gnarly climax"	POS
United States	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"	NEU
United States	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"	POS
United States	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."	POS
United States	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"	POS
United Kingdom	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"	NEU
United States	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."	POS
United Kingdom	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)"	NEG
United Kingdom	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)"	POS
United Kingdom	Lewis Knight Mirror	"A moving and gripping Western with particularly strong performances from Diane Lane [and Lesley Manville] (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	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)"	POS
United States	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)"	POS

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