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Ain't Them Bodies Saints

2013

David Lowery

Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Nate Parker ...

6.0

3,427

Drama The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Slow as molasses but every bit as rich, Lowery's gorgeously shot third feature suggests a lost artifact freshly unearthed from the 1970s"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"An exceptionally beautiful, if a bit fuzzy-headed, romantic Texas outlaw saga that announces a considerable talent in writer-director David Lowery"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' offers no glib answers or smooth resolution, but there's no question that Lowery is a filmmaker with a striking future (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Strong emotions — desperation, dread, desire — are indicated but not really communicated, and everything happens in a hazy atmosphere of humorless homage and exquisite good taste"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sebastian Doggart The Guardian	"The film is so singular, it's hard to place. At times, its elegiac visual quality evokes Terrence Malick, but Lowery's scripting is tighter and more accessible. His is truly a fresh voice, exhilarating to hear (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Sam Adams Time Out	"It’s an unfailingly beautiful movie that finally stakes out a territory of its own, with quietly intense performances and a sure hand on the tiller (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' is such a persuasively cinematic experience that one ultimately forgives (but doesn't forget) the threadbare story and obvious reference points on display"	NEU
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"In mashing together story elements from Terrence Malick’s 'Badlands' with the look of Malick’s 'Days of Heaven', Lowery put 90 percent of his energy into the atmosphere and 10 percent into the script (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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