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By Mike D'angelo (730) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 12 Nov 2014

There’s a wishy-washiness to the film’s ideological bent that keeps steering things in a more conventional direction, as if Jones (or perhaps…

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By Scott Mendelson (400) for Forbes (586) on 12 Nov 2014

The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones's grim yet witty feminist western, features a terrific star turn from Hilary Swank…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 12 Nov 2014

Thought-provoking and studied in its pace..Have patience, however, and you'll be rewarded by a moving, thoughtful experience…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 12 Nov 2014

A grand, shocking saga of a movie, The Homesman is the kind they don’t make much anymore…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 12 Nov 2014

Very much a feminist Western — one painting a vivid picture of how difficult it was for even a strong and determined woman to survive in…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Nov 2014

Integrity and personality can go a long way, especially in a movie as unquestionably flawed as The Homesman…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 11 Nov 2014

Sturdy, bleak and understated - or, as one wag said, it's No Country for Crazy Womwn…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 11 Nov 2014

The Homesman tries to cut a mordant, witty Coen Brothers line between tragedy and comedy and can't quite manage either…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 11 Nov 2014

Despite a disappointing ending, Tommy Lee Jones has created an unsettling vision of the Old West and the damaged souls who settled those lands…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 11 Nov 2014

Jones tells this story with care and a lack of hurry, a pace to fit an age when people traveled no faster than two mules pulling a wagon could…

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By Pete Vonder Haar (745) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Nov 2014

Glendon Swarthout’s 1988 novel offered a rare approach to those Old West stories by shifting the focus to the women and children who often…

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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 10 Nov 2014

The Homesman is a bleak, thoughtful glimpse into Western life that, thanks to Tommy Lee Jones' direction, finds ample intrigue without needing…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 10 Nov 2014

What matters most about The Homesman, which Jones co-wrote and directed, is how willingly, and movingly, he cedes the stage to Hilary Swank,…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 10 Nov 2014

This beautifully crafted film intrigues as a story never told before and ratchets up dramatic interest through a succession of unexpected turns…

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By Christopher Gray (138) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 09 Nov 2014

If there's any ambiguity to be found in the film's prolonged last gasps, which reach for tragedy, but only sow more epistemic confusion, it's…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 08 Nov 2014

Comes across as an authentic view of the Old West as opposed to the usual Cowboys-and-Indians melodramas…

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By Robert Horton (590) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 06 Nov 2014

It's a Western…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 02 Nov 2014

A bizarre deconstruction about the grim reality for women in the Old West, or at least that's what the film appears to be about…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for Critical Women (23) on 19 Sep 2014

Not exactly a feminist western, but powerfully evoking the lives of these scarred and thwarted women - and men - afflicted with Prairie Fever…

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By Fiona Williams (67) for sbs.com.au (697) on 02 Jun 2014

It might pass the Bechdel Test, but The Homesman's gender politics are little skewy…

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