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By Erik Anderson (42) for AwardsWatch (42) on 26 Aug 2018

It feels like a missed opportunity but there is still quite a bit to enjoy…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 15 Feb 2018

The Homesman is a dark, complex story of gender issues and changing conventions on the frontier, and in an era that sees this genre fading,…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 30 Oct 2017

Hilary Swank gives a particularly good central performance -- but the end result is a real curate's egg: too much at times, underdeveloped…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 16 Oct 2017

It's a film worth seeing before the crowd of Oscar contenders sweeps it out of the way for the holiday season…

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By Lisa Rosman (132) for Signature (102) on 02 Aug 2017

Clear-eyed but never discompassionate, The Homesman collects uneasy truths that are all too often left by the wayside of our nation's road to success…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Saporta Report (Atlanta) (228) on 26 Jun 2017

As a director, he's batted it out of the park. Twice…

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By Mark Jackson (231) for Epoch Times (337) on 12 Jun 2016

A fair portion of Tommy Lee's life has been dedicated to telling stories about schlepping variously incapacitated or dead people long distances…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 06 Jun 2016

If 'The Homesman' proves anything, it's that there's no movie that can't get a shot in the arm from a couple scenes of Tommy Lee Jones hollerin…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 19 Nov 2015

With his sophomore effort, The Homesman, Jones gives us a revisionist Western that defies expectations at every turn…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Spliced Personality (175) on 08 Jun 2015

A stubbornly uncommercial and richly challenging inversion of Americana, this time with an eye towards the pioneer women pushed to the margins…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 09 Apr 2015

Actor Tommy Lee Jones again proves himself a fine director with this quietly remarkable revisionist western…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Parallax View (176) on 14 Mar 2015

this story presents the West as a hard place that creates hard people and destroys the rest…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 03 Feb 2015

There's never been a Western like this, but dang if every bizarre thing in it doesn't seem historically probable…

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By Jason Best (961) for Movie Talk (957) on 11 Jan 2015

There isn't a white hat to be seen in this grimly realistic Western, and its most heroic character wears a bonnet not a Stetson…

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By John Wirt (638) for Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (638) on 09 Jan 2015

Horses, wagons, occasional Indians and villainous white settlers don't stop The Homesman from transcending the western tag…

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By Roy Ivy (5) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 08 Jan 2015

Almost every moment of The Homesman deserves to be framed in a gallery, with shots of moonlight skylines and endless horizons that would make…

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By Blake Howard (505) for 2UE That Movie Show (314) on 02 Jan 2015

The Homesman is a moving expose of the suffrage of isolation and piety disguising the horrors of pioneer life…

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By Philip Martin (1,107) for Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1,391) on 31 Dec 2014

for 90 minutes or so, The Homesman is a completely hypnotic, powerful experience…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 31 Dec 2014

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 25 Dec 2014

It's not always a totally satisfying experience, but it's one of the most engaging and rewarding films of the year even so…

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