Review of Heaven's Gate (1980) by Joseph Jon Lanthier for Slant Magazine — 16 Mar 2013
To his credit, Cimino renders us helpless not before carnage or greed, but before his epic’s breadth of motivation and circumstance. It’s not the past’s ugliness that terrifies us in Heaven’s Gate, but its far more intimidating immensity.
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This review of Heaven's Gate (1980) was written by Joseph Jon Lanthier and published by Slant Magazine on 16 Mar 2013.
Heaven's Gate has generally received positive reviews.
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