Hostiles

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Dozens more will be butchered to appease the themes of director Scott Coopers script: the sin and apparent redemption of the American myth, complete with visual quotations from The Searchers. ( Read More )

Worse still, Coopers well meant desire to make a film about the dehumanising effects of violence doesnt extend to making his Native American characters seem particularly, well, human. ( Read More )

David Ehrlich

Prior to the rise of superhero movies, the Western was the most static and strictly codified genre we had, but the best of them have always leveraged its tropes to illustrate some kind of foundational change.Western heroes are uniquely susceptible to change at the deepest levels. even if they often tend to die in the process; Hostiles does a fine job of dramatizing that evolution. ( Read More )

Roger Moore

And while theres a lot to be said for genre busting entries in the horse opera vein, I caught myself hating Scott Coopers muddle of a movie, more often than not. ( Read More )

Daniel Barnes

Cooper made a decent, low key debut with the Jeff Bridges vehicle Crazy Heart, but ever since then he has wallowed in pointless violence and thunderously empty drama, and with Hostiles he has hopefully found his nadir. ( Read More )