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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 15 Mar 2019

Still, you can’t help but be swept up by the sincerity here — that and the sight of a hard man softening to a sympathetic nuzzle…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 Mar 2019

Ms. De Clermont-Tonnerre’s direction is a revelation — not just a good first try, but a first-rate achievement by any measure…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 14 Mar 2019

You can probably guess every beat of The Mustang ahead of time, but what does that matter? The picture, shot by Ruben Impens, is gorgeous to look at…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Mar 2019

The Mustang is direct and almost perilously familiar — it draws from both westerns and prison movies — yet it is also attractively filigreed…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Mar 2019

The film’s impressive as far is it goes, and Schoenaerts is a fine actor with considerable emotional resources…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 13 Mar 2019

But Clermont-Tonnerre has established herself as a filmmaker to watch with The Mustang, and has also made the most compelling case yet that…

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By Allison Shoemaker (83) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Mar 2019

It’s all well-trod territory…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Mar 2019

Clermont-Tonnerre comes from a place of defiance, and her fearless instincts surge through every frame…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Mar 2019

Fascinating and frequently compelling, The Mustang is a hybrid, the unlikely combination of genres you wouldn’t think go together but are…

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By Peter Goldberg (21) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Mar 2019

Single-minded and direct in its execution, the film is a hard look at the extremes of masculine guilt and healing…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Mar 2019

First-time feature filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre brings a gorgeous, wide-open sparseness to her visual storytelling (it makes sense…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Feb 2019

De Clermont-Tonnerre shows admirable restraint, knowing that, in her carefully constructed frames, it can be enough just to get Roman's newly…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Feb 2019

It’s a touching and original piece of bare-bones sentimental humanism, and Schoenaerts is terrific in it…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 01 Feb 2019

A tense prison drama that’s penned into the trappings of a classic Western, The Mustang is a small movie about a subtle transformation, but…

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By Gregory Ellwood (229) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2019

The initial inspiration was clearly there, but the execution simply falls short…

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By Dan Mecca (208) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 Jan 2019

The prison drama is a well-worn sub-genre, ripe with predictive beats and expected narrative turns…

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