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By Robert Daniels (336) for Polygon (677) on 15 Sep 2021

The Power of the Dog doesn’t just mark Campion’s return — it’s the best movie of 2021 so far…

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By Andy Howell (33) for Film Threat (5,156) on 13 Sep 2021

It is a worthy return to feature directing by Jane Campion and a thoroughly relevant film to our modern discourse…

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By Kate Taylor (347) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 11 Sep 2021

There is exquisite dramatic tension here, built partly by Campion’s deft storytelling and partly by her powerful cast…

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By Chris Evangelista (306) for Slashfilm (971) on 11 Sep 2021

A foreboding tone blankets The Power of the Dog, putting us on edge nearly from the jump…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 Sep 2021

Unless you're one of the few who's read Thomas Savage's 1967 book of the same name, on which the script is based, there's rarely a moment that…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 02 Sep 2021

This is a movie as big as the open sky, but one where human emotions are still distinctly visible, as fine and sharp as a blade of grass…

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By Nicholas Barber (220) for BBC (137) on 02 Sep 2021

It's a film which shimmers with intelligence, and if the plot isn't clear until the very last scene, well, it's worth the wait…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Sep 2021

This is an exquisitely crafted film, its unhurried rhythms continually shifting as plangent notes of melancholy, solitude, torment, jealousy…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 02 Sep 2021

The film is often hard to watch, but Campion and her uniformly excellent cast leaven the discomfort with a constant sense of prickling intrigue…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 02 Sep 2021

The Power of the Dog sticks its teeth into you so fast and furtively that you may not feel the sting on your skin until after the credits roll,…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Sep 2021

It’s cinematic poetry, if there ever was one, bourgeoning in meaning the more you linger in its shadow…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 02 Sep 2021

Campion preserves the simplicity of Savage’s prose with the understated ease of her own storytelling, and she even finds a compelling way…

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By Carlos Aguilar (278) for TheWrap (3,203) on 02 Sep 2021

For a movie that appears to stop and start as it shifts its focus a few times too many, denying us longer introspection into its most magnetic…

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By David Katz (41) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2021

The Power of the Dog has attributes that recall her past work but pleasingly seems––if not a new direction––that Campion is drawing…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Sep 2021

While the core narrative is plenty compelling in all its creeping dread and curiosity, The Power of the Dog is not too concerned with being…

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By Jonathan Romney (434) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 02 Sep 2021

If The Power Of The Dog isn’t the absolute killer coup that Campionites might have hoped, this is her most thoroughly conceived, consistently…

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By Xan Brooks (287) for The Guardian (2,969) on 02 Sep 2021

It’s a brawny, brooding drama about the wreckage caused by men, beautifully framed in muted neutral tones as the camera circles the ranch-house…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Sep 2021

All of this should build, slowly and inexorably, in force and emotion…

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