Review of Hostiles (2017) by Gary Thompson for Philadelphia Daily News — 04 Jan 2018
What is Cooper after here? He seems to want us to gasp at the naturalistic horror of it all, drawn from history and accompanied with the sober denunciation of actual frontier massacres (Blocker is a veteran of Wounded Knee), but the parade of grotesque violence (murders, rapes, suicides) suggests something more surreal, less literal.
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This review of Hostiles (2017) was written by Gary Thompson and published by Philadelphia Daily News on 04 Jan 2018.
Hostiles has generally received positive reviews.
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