Review of The Homesman (2014) by Bart G — 16 Dec 2014

A quite gripping film....some cameos too!

This review of The Homesman (2014) was written by Bart G on 16 Dec 2014.

The Homesman has generally received positive reviews.

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By Kilgore T R (11) on 02 Sep 2018

I thought How could this movie be bad? It has Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank and Meryl Streep in it! The critics here gave it 81%…

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By Riff R (79) on 08 Aug 2017

Well worth watching. Tommy Lee Jones in a leading role, and directing. Hilary Swank gives a great performance…

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By Jluis_001 (2,242) on 05 Sep 2017

The Homesman is neither conventional nor fresh, the film gets entangled with a series of relative episodes that define the journey which achieves…

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By Ray L (129) on 19 Mar 2018

I enjoyed this movie enough to buy it and share it with others…

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By John M (4,356) on 20 Aug 2016

Great Acting, terrible movie. Good for a small film festival type of movie. Highly recommended to wait for netflix on this one…

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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 Bill C (822) on 06 Mar 2016

In one of the DVD special features Tommy Lee Jones gives us a short lecture about the elusiveness of defining the western genre, then describes…

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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 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 Dustin G (630) on 08 Jan 2016

Quite sad really. Good nevertheless. Morose…

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