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By Calvin Wilson (480) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 25 Jan 2018

If you’ve got a hankering for a Western, Hostiles is must-viewing…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 24 Jan 2018

Overall, Hostiles is pompous garbage, meant to assuage a nation's guilt for its treatment of those who were here before us…

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By Samantha Celentano (5) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 24 Jan 2018

Overall, Hostiles was tiresome and stale. What it really comes down to is that this is not exactly the kind of movie we need right now…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 24 Jan 2018

When Blocker and his military colleagues refer ruefully to the way it is out here, they're talking about the place we recognize as home…

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By Kristian M. Lin (336) for Fort Worth Weekly (325) on 24 Jan 2018

this well-intentioned revisionist Western is still a chore to get through…

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By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for ABC Tucson (117) on 23 Jan 2018

It's a robust, full-bodied experience that is as exhausting as it is envigorating…

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By Mark R. Leeper (892) for Mark Leeper's Reviews (297) on 22 Jan 2018

In the end there are two messages. One is a message of hope and one a message of despair…

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By James Mottram (656) for Total Film (3,532) on 20 Jan 2018

Cooper’s western may be too meditative for some, but its grit, beauty and honesty are too potent to ignore…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Jan 2018

Most powerfully about what violence does to the soul: Joe is almost dead to the world, and to himself. Not quite, though…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 19 Jan 2018

Though the film seeks to avoid many of the genre’s cliches, it nonetheless ends up slipping into some well-worn and dull dynamics of noble…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 19 Jan 2018

Thankfully, Cooper affords the audience enough room to think about the story without forcing the outcome…

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By Adrian Mack (57) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 19 Jan 2018

To put all this another way: here's an exceptionally timely neowestern that goes out of its way to press all the right buttons, and ends up…

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By Sandy Schaefer (333) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 19 Jan 2018

Hostiles is grim and slow-burn to a fault in its deconstruction of the American West's violent legacy, but strong performances keep the film on track…

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By Brad Wheeler (426) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Jan 2018

Like Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, the underlying tension involves the protagonist's journey to regain his humanity. Hostiles, a hotbed of hostility…

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By Steve Persall (1,105) for Tampa Bay Times (1,287) on 18 Jan 2018

Bale operates in full brood throughout. Studi is a strong presence stymied by the movie’s misplaced priorities…

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By Daniel Barnes (335) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 18 Jan 2018

Bale plays hard-bitten terseness in the hammiest manner possible, but as a deranged survivor who joins the caravan, Rosamund Pike delivers…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 18 Jan 2018

Grim but never foul, taking special care of thematic interests and dramatic intensity, with Cooper visiting a volatile genre with a defined…

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By Neil Pond (477) for Parade Magazine (247) on 18 Jan 2018

The ever-present backdrop of violence between white interlopers and Native Americans is set against the breathtaking stillness and natural…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Jan 2018

Bale and Pike find a strange kind of peace within their characters, intuiting how tough it would be to live in a world where death is easier…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 17 Jan 2018

With his hard-bitten squint and studied air of scowling detachment, Bale seems to be channeling Clint Eastwood at his most enigmatic and reserved;…

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