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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 22 Dec 2017

A film ignorant of Indian history and filled with laughably improbable reconciliations…

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By Godfrey Cheshire (178) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Dec 2017

The film has a lot going for it…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 21 Dec 2017

A western that depicts the miracle of turning away from a life of violence, hatred, and anger…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 21 Dec 2017

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for Time Out (7,510) on 21 Dec 2017

At times, you'll find yourself wanting more of the perspective of the Cheyenne, but Cooper still does right by his story of historical reconciliation,…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Dec 2017

Once feared dead but found instead only sleeping, the western has sprung back to strong and compelling life with the intense, involving Hostiles…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 21 Dec 2017

The themes of redemption and forgiveness are both timely and timeless, but the connecting narrative proves a tad episodic, and the erosion…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Dec 2017

Hostiles itself wants to be both a throwback and an advance, not so much a new kind of western as every possible kind — vintage, revisionist,…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for IGN (1,013) on 21 Dec 2017

Scott Cooper directs Hostiles with an eye for quote-unquote “greatness” but the actual material simply isn’t deep enough to justify the…

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By Danny King (66) for Village Voice (8,525) on 21 Dec 2017

Cooper has yet to elevate his sensibility beyond a choked, self-inhibiting intensity…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 20 Dec 2017

Christian Bale smolders with obsidian-black fury in this overacted and underwritten western about a U.S…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 Dec 2017

Westerns can be a tough nut to crack, but Hostiles may be the finest example of the genre since Unforgiven…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Cultured Vultures (61) on 20 Dec 2017

Scott Cooper's Hostiles is a Western film that has been made for 21st Century audiences…

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By Michael Ordoña (350) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 20 Dec 2017

Lots of violence, some language in Western road movie…

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By David Crow (142) for Den of Geek (424) on 20 Dec 2017

Very much built in the post-Unforgiven mold, Hostiles desires to do for the Cowboys and Indians half of the mythology what Clint Eastwood did…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Dec 2017

Every single action proves overt to the point of superficiality with Hostiles becoming less introspective drama than unsubtle parable…

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By James Greenberg (88) for TheWrap (3,203) on 19 Dec 2017

Hostiles, Scott Cooper’s mournful meditation on human nature, is more than a revisionist Western; it’s a film that explores the roots of…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 19 Dec 2017

The movie, written for the screen and directed by Scott Cooper (who helmed Jeff Bridges’ Oscar-winning performance in Crazy Heart), is careful…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 16 Dec 2017

This is a proudly traditional oater that travels down old trails with new sadism, as though the Western genre only died off because the movies…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Dec 2017

Scott Cooper's film moves at a funereal pace, implicitly celebrating its sluggishness as a mark of integrity…

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