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The Iron Orchard

2018

Austin Nichols, Ali Cobrin, Lew Temple, Lane Garrison ...

Drama "The Iron Orchard" is the story of Jim McNeely, a young man thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939, who works his way through the ranks to ultimately become a formidable wildcatter.

	Author	Review
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"As competently put together as this movie is, it imparted to me no sense of a higher calling, and thus left me unmoved (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"'The Iron Orchard' is satisfyingly involving and entertaining as a whole (...) and the performances are sufficiently compelling to ease a viewer through some abrupt and elliptical transitions."	POS
United States	Pat Brown Slant	"Director Ty Roberts’s film is unable to realize that its subject matter is that of a horror story (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"[It] is all over the place (...) The musical score is overcooked, the cast underpowered, and the dialogue something of a mishmash"	NEG
United States	Matthew Monagle Austin Chronicle	"What it lacks is a distinct perspective; for all its period details and solid acting, the underlying message about this time in Texas oil history (...) is lacking (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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