Ain't Them Bodies Saints Reviews
Guardian [UK]
The film is so singular, it's hard to place. At times, its elegiac visual quality evokes Terrence Malick, but Lowery's scripting is tighter and more accessible. His is truly a fresh voice, exhilarating to hear.
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| Original Score: 5/5
HitFix
There's something alluringly, disconcertingly off-kilter from the get-go in Ain't Them Bodies Saints.
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| Original Score: B
What Culture
There is almost certainly a major nod here to Badlands, as well as Thieves Like Us, and more generally speaking, Lowery seems intent on re-exploring the essence of that particular period of outlaw movies.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
This is a consistently moving tone poem of a film, even if its immediacy doesn't necessarily translate into long-lasting resonance.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
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Screen International
Ain't Them Bodies Saints is such a persuasively cinematic experience that one ultimately forgives (but doesn't forget) the threadbare story and obvious reference points on display.
An exceptionally beautiful, if a bit fuzzy-headed, romantic Texas outlaw saga that announces a considerable talent in writer-director David Lowery.
David Lowery's Ain't Them Bodies Saints landed with the excitement of a bold new voice, and yet, there's also something undeniably old-fashioned in his approach, suggesting a lost artifact freshly unearthed from the 1970s.
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Gorgeous. Like a lost Terrence Mallick movie from the seventies.
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| Original Score: 8/10
