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Slow West serves as an impressive calling card for first-time writer-director John M. Maclean -- and offers an inventive treat for fans of the Western.
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Slow West crescendos into a bravura shootout between all the involved parties, and it's as gorgeous, nihilistic, and brutally sad as the rest of the film. Oct 14, 2015 | Full Review…
Slow West crescendos into a bravura shootout between all the involved parties, and it's as gorgeous, nihilistic, and brutally sad as the rest of the film.
David Sims
It's only slow in the way a rattlesnake or a predatory killer is slow. This terrific film is actually tense, twisty and brilliant. Jun 25, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's only slow in the way a rattlesnake or a predatory killer is slow. This terrific film is actually tense, twisty and brilliant.
Peter Bradshaw
Essentially an old-school Western with some interesting tweaks, Slow West -- the debut feature from musician-turned-filmmaker John Maclean -- is a simple story told, yes, slowly. But it offers a bang-up finish. Jun 11, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Essentially an old-school Western with some interesting tweaks, Slow West -- the debut feature from musician-turned-filmmaker John Maclean -- is a simple story told, yes, slowly. But it offers a bang-up finish.
Jim Slotek
There's more to the story than meets the bull's eye in Slow West, a brainy and genre-defying western by newcomer John Maclean. Jun 11, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
There's more to the story than meets the bull's eye in Slow West, a brainy and genre-defying western by newcomer John Maclean.
Peter Howell
You don't have to love westerns to like this movie, but those who do might enjoy the way Maclean pays his respects. Jun 4, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
You don't have to love westerns to like this movie, but those who do might enjoy the way Maclean pays his respects.
Paul Byrnes
It's all of 84 minutes. But when it's done, you know you've seen something. May 28, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's all of 84 minutes. But when it's done, you know you've seen something.
Ty Burr
It's so obsessed with being a well-constructed, socially conscious film that it forgets to be a good one. Dec 27, 2018 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
It's so obsessed with being a well-constructed, socially conscious film that it forgets to be a good one.
Nathanael Hood
It shows the rewards of taking the road less traveled, relishing the telling of the tale as much as the tale itself. Nov 15, 2018 | Full Review…
It shows the rewards of taking the road less traveled, relishing the telling of the tale as much as the tale itself.
Stephen Saito
Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, both physically and in the way they inhabit their roles, dovetail excellently. Nov 10, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, both physically and in the way they inhabit their roles, dovetail excellently.
PJ Nabarro
Slow West harks back to its cowboy roots and its noir inspiration for its strong moral core. Every evil act committed is paid for in a breathtaking final act. Aug 30, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Slow West harks back to its cowboy roots and its noir inspiration for its strong moral core. Every evil act committed is paid for in a breathtaking final act.
Anne Brodie
Neither clever enough to be a good revisionist Western nor entertaining enough to be a satisfying genre exercise. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
Neither clever enough to be a good revisionist Western nor entertaining enough to be a satisfying genre exercise.
Pat Padua
[Jay Cavendish] seeks to move beyond the boundaries of basic survival, a trait that Silas eventually learns in this slick and often heart-warming tale of unlikely paths crossing. Aug 24, 2018 | Full Review…
[Jay Cavendish] seeks to move beyond the boundaries of basic survival, a trait that Silas eventually learns in this slick and often heart-warming tale of unlikely paths crossing.
Chloe Leeson
This attempt of an arthouse Western movie is only 80 minutes long but feels like two hours. It's okay to tell a story slowly but you should never make your audience feel as if they just wasted their time. It doesn't help that the humor feels so out of place and random even the editing makes other scenes unintentionally funny. Some sequences are beautifully shot, but the pointlessly bittersweet ending really makes you want to forget you watched this. What was everyone involved thinking?
Super Reviewer
Every now and again comes a film wherein all the characters are chasing something they want, and often that thing needn't be much of anything. So is the case here where we are introduced to several different types of folks, all in search of the same thing, in this case $2000, which may not seem like a lot now but back then was quite a lot. A nicely told tale.
A more than impressive debut for John Maclean, who revisits the Western genre in an intense story about a long gone time of violence and death, showing the West in its raw brutality but with a lot of dark humor, and backed by a beautiful cinematography and great sound design.
A bold, exciting, fun and wonderfully original directional debut from Director, John M. Maclean. Maclean shoots like Wes Anderson and has the Coen Brothers gritty storytelling. A fresh, darkly comic and pistol-whipping western with heart and great characters. Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender are absolutely excellent. They have a charming and unique chemistry to them. I really enjoyed this movie its colorful edge, beautiful landscapes and compelling story. A sharp and vastly enjoyable movie.
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