Review of Spirit Untamed (2021) by Bob Strauss for San Francisco Chronicle — 01 Jun 2021
Whatever its weaknesses, contemporary parents who want a nontoxic Western to show their children could hardly find better than “Spirit Untamed.” It takes the idea at the end of genre master John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (“This is the West, sir.
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend”) and virtually rides off in its own, counter-mythic direction with it.
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This review of Spirit Untamed (2021) was written by Bob Strauss and published by San Francisco Chronicle on 01 Jun 2021.
Spirit Untamed has generally received mixed reviews.
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