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By Taylor Antrim (19) for Vogue (149) on 09 Apr 2018

Sweet Country is a somber film, but not a didactic or overly worthy one…

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By Nick Dent (153) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Apr 2018

A chase movie becomes an outdoor courtroom drama, and Thornton wrings from this fable of rough frontier justice a statement from the heart…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Apr 2018

Spare, deliberately paced, and almost Biblical in its search for moral justice in a harsh and lawless landscape…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Apr 2018

This is a movie of visuals first and foremost; it’s no fluke that director Warwick Thornton shared cinematography duties with Dylan River…

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By Adam Sweeting (122) for The Arts Desk (640) on 05 Apr 2018

In a film striking for its absence of background music, the story is told through natural ambient sounds and some glorious cinematography…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 05 Apr 2018

A visually striking film undone by its obsequious indigenous characters. Australia needs a film about native resistance…

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By April Wolfe (199) for Village Voice (8,525) on 04 Apr 2018

Thornton delicately peels back all the layers of Aussie injustice in this film, but what’s most unnerving is that the story proves to be…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 Apr 2018

The director Warwick Thornton constructs a searing indictment of frontier racism as remarkable for its sonic restraint as its visual expansiveness…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 04 Apr 2018

While Sweet Country snakes along to an inevitable outcome, Thornton retains a sharp control over the movie’s ravishing visuals, assembling…

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By Dante James (28) for Film Threat (5,156) on 04 Apr 2018

It's a movie that you really have to brace yourself to watch because though it is an amazing film, the subject matter isn't pretty…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Apr 2018

While many familiar tropes are present, including murder, mayhem, a tough lawman and a tentative posse, Thornton uses them to tell a 20th century…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Apr 2018

The spare, classical chase drama that ensues is seeded with barbed observations on colonialism, cultural erasure and rough justice, kept poetically…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 Apr 2018

The story is both fresh and archetypal; the landscape both hard and delicate – and beautifully observed…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 01 Apr 2018

This is fiercely powerful storytelling, simple and muscular in one way, but also conveying nuance and sophistication in its depiction of character…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Apr 2018

Sweet Country is unmistakably a western in iconography and spare, taciturn tone, but it is also an incendiary slave narrative, in which the…

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By Lee Marshall (157) for Screen International (2,241) on 01 Apr 2018

One of the many pleasures of this understated drama is its slow-burn magnetism and lack of flashy genre posturing…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Apr 2018

Poetically directed by Warwick Thornton, whose Samson & Delilah also threw a spotlight over aboriginal characters, Sweet Country has a shaggy,…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Apr 2018

In terms of its visual command, the movie could hardly be more expressive…

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By John Bleasdale (289) for CineVue (2,163) on 01 Apr 2018

Sweet Country is a hoarsely angry film, a powerful denunciation of the racism and violence on which modern Australia was eventually founded…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Apr 2018

The film is a meticulous examination of how the dehumanization of Australia's native population bred an environment of cyclical violence and mistrust…

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