Review of Hostiles (2017) by Michael Phillips for Chicago Tribune — 04 Jan 2018
It’s Blocker’s story, and Bale’s very good. But for Hostiles to fully make sense of its introductory on-screen D.H. Lawrence quotation — “The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
It has never yet melted” — we’d need a tougher, less comforting ending than the one Cooper provides.
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This review of Hostiles (2017) was written by Michael Phillips and published by Chicago Tribune on 04 Jan 2018.
Hostiles has generally received positive reviews.
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