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Hostiles

2017

Scott Cooper

Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi, Jesse Plemons ...

6.6

6,677

Western. Drama In 1892, legendary Army captain Joseph J. Blocker (Christian Bale) reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) and his family through dangerous territory.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A smart and sorrowful Western (...) Potent dramatic dynamics and the filmmaker's self-evident deep immersion and investment in his material enrich this vivid account of the last spasms of Native American resistance in the 1890s."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"[It] ultimately falls back on the same one-dimensional archetypes, depicting Native Americans either as ruthless savages or as stoic sages (...) The film is exceptionally well-attuned to the complexity of its white characters"	NEU
United States	Sasha Stone The Wrap	"Christian Bale drives a great American Western (...) Cooper finally brings to full fruition the excellence he has come close to achieving in the fine films he’s already made (...) Splendid"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s less interested in saying something new than it is in reiterating something old (...) The Wild West has never looked more beautiful, or been more foreboding (...) Cooper’s brilliant cast is largely wasted on broad archetypes"	NEU
United States	Gregory Ellwood The Playlist	"Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike can’t save overstuffed and problematic Western (...) There’s also the glaring problem that the film is entirely from the perspective of a white man (or woman)."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"The beauty of the landscape and the violence of its human inhabitants are evidently supposed (...) to add up to something. But what? (...) A flawed, but interesting drama (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"The film moves at a funereal pace, implicitly celebrating its sluggishness as a mark of integrity. There's quite a bit of incident in this film, but nothing ever seems to happen (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"'Hostiles' demands patience and concentration but rewards that with an assured, thought-provoking window into a past whose legacy is still being felt to this day."	POS

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