An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Sweetgrass has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 31 Mar 2010
Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 15 Apr 2010
Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
By Emily S (662) on 20 Mar 2011
Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
Review of Sweetgrass (2009)
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Sweetgrass was released in 2009 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 68 reviews, giving Sweetgrass (2009) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 66%. Professional critics were more impressed with Sweetgrass than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 69%, Sweetgrass is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2009, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 2009 with similar scores include films like Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Julie & Julia and Taking Chance.
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