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Meek's Cutoff

2010

Kelly Reichardt

Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Rod Rondeaux, Paul Dano ...

6.6

2,132

Western. Adventure The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a short cut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants must face the scourges of hunger, thirst and their own lack of faith in each ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Justin Chang Variety	"Beautifully hand-crafted picture (...) this risky accomplishment deserves to command Reichardt's broadest audience yet."
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A realistic slice of pioneer life that offers a disquieting alternative vision of America's most mythic location"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A bracingly original foray into territory that remains, in every sense, unsettled"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Kelly Reichardt has crafted a haunted dream of a movie to get lost in (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"

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