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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for The Seattle Times (964) on 17 Nov 2021

It’s a unique ride of a movie, beautiful and disturbing and haunting — in other words, it’s a Jane Campion film…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 17 Nov 2021

The Power of the Dog is a made with artistry and command: it is one of Jane Campion’s best…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Nov 2021

Campion handles the story with puzzle-box precision, but the power of this movie goes beyond its clockwork plotting and startling, deeply satisfying…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 17 Nov 2021

The Power of the Dog may in the end be more a twisty psychological thriller than a transcendent frontier epic…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 17 Nov 2021

For Campion, the personifications of Western heroism and toughness are practically indistinguishable from their own nightmarish distortions…

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By Mark Feeney (434) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Nov 2021

Campion’s best-known films (the remarkable The Piano, 1993; The Portrait of a Lady, 1996) are not just set in the past but summon it up with…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Nov 2021

The Power Of The Dog divulges its secrets in deliberate, measured fashion, growing richer with each new reveal…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 16 Nov 2021

The Power of the Dog is such a delicately constructed movie as to almost defy the ability to review it without saying too much…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Nov 2021

The Power of the Dog is a beautifully composed work by a filmmaker at the height of her powers. It deserves our attention…

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By Matthew Anderson (173) for CineVue (2,163) on 16 Nov 2021

Striking visual metaphors may be as blunt as stakes in the hard ground, as brutal as rusty, bloodied blades or as free-flowing and poetic as…

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By Linda Barnard (586) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 15 Nov 2021

With The Power of the Dog, Campion has crafted a contemporary Western masterpiece that turns on the same pacing and style of 50-year-old films…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 15 Nov 2021

With Campion’s native New Zealand standing in magnificently for early 20th century Big Sky Country, The Power of the Dog is a study in contrasts…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 14 Nov 2021

Cumberbatch makes every moment he’s onscreen mesmerizing—entertaining and terrifying at the same time…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 12 Nov 2021

Can Jane Campion’s Montana western about toxic masculinity and repressed sexuality win Netflix its first Best Picture Oscar…

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By Hanna Flint (37) for IGN (1,013) on 24 Oct 2021

Jane Campion serves up a nervy psychodrama set against an astonishing cattle country backdrop with impressive performances from Benedict Cumberbatch…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Screen Rant (892) on 21 Oct 2021

Campion’s film is gorgeously crafted and detailed, emotionally effective, and layered in shades of meaning about masculinity…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for Observer (1,042) on 04 Oct 2021

With four great performances in tow, it unfurls a harrowing tale of pain turned outward and inward all at once, by turning cinematic myths…

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By Brianna Zigler (58) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Oct 2021

It’s easy to find yourself so wrapped up in the austere unease of Campion’s first feature in over a decade that one might fully overlook…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Consequence (296) on 01 Oct 2021

Campion’s take on the Western is an elegant, sometimes unnerving accomplishment…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 21 Sep 2021

The film looks at times like a stiff-jawed period piece, but it ripples underneath with a prickly modern sensibility…

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