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The Proposition

2005

John Hillcoat

Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, David Wenham ...

6.5

4,204

Western Late-19th century Australia, and Cpt. Stanley (Winstone) has captured the younger two siblings of the notorious Burns brothers. With them in custody he offers middle brother Charlie (Pearce) a deal: head into the outback to kill older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), and the youngest (Richard Wilson) won’t be hanged.

	Author	Review
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The cast of 'The Proposition' is reason enough to see the film (...) [Huston and Pearce] are memorable"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Hillcoat] has made a movie you cannot turn away from (...) The actors invest their characters with human details all the scarier because they scarcely seem human themselves (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Kuipers Variety	"Production design, costuming and d.p. Benoit Delhomme’s non-travelogue widescreen compositions unite in birthing the first genuine, blood-and-thunder Aussie Western"	POS
United Kingdom	Luke Buckmaster The Guardian	"Script, direction and performances [come] together with a rich and beguiling synergy (...) A violently complex masterpiece of genre revisionism."	POS
United States	Noel Murray AV Club	"It's all too literal and bluntly ugly. It's revisionism that's forgotten what it was meant to revise."	NEG
United Kingdom	Nev Pierce BBC	"The conclusion is exhausting and exhilarating; the film hugely entertaining and troubling. Watch it. Then watch it again (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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