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Well-framed, well-cast, and well-intentioned, The Kid still largely fails to set itself apart from the multitude of other westerns covering similar territory.
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First-time director D'Onofrio has as an admirable visual style, whether we get medium-long-shot takes or intimate close-ups. This is a good-looking period piece film, percolating with top-tier performances. Mar 8, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
First-time director D'Onofrio has as an admirable visual style, whether we get medium-long-shot takes or intimate close-ups. This is a good-looking period piece film, percolating with top-tier performances.
Richard Roeper
It succeeds sporadically as a corrective anti-myth, but as a story about people, it fails to come to life. Mar 8, 2019 | Full Review…
It succeeds sporadically as a corrective anti-myth, but as a story about people, it fails to come to life.
Bilge Ebiri
"The Kid" manages some picturesque shots of Western landscapes, and Hawke, who has hit a career stride in recent years, wouldn't know how to turn in a bad performance if he tried. But there's not enough here to make this journey worth taking. Mar 8, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
"The Kid" manages some picturesque shots of Western landscapes, and Hawke, who has hit a career stride in recent years, wouldn't know how to turn in a bad performance if he tried. But there's not enough here to make this journey worth taking.
Adam Graham
Simultaneously wants to humanize and mythologize its cowboys - and neither effort works. Mar 8, 2019 | Full Review…
Simultaneously wants to humanize and mythologize its cowboys - and neither effort works.
Todd Gilchrist
This relegation of female characters to the sidelines is depressing for a film released in 2019, especially because it seems entirely possible to have a film looking at masculinity without reducing women to archetypes. Mar 8, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
This relegation of female characters to the sidelines is depressing for a film released in 2019, especially because it seems entirely possible to have a film looking at masculinity without reducing women to archetypes.
Arielle Bernstein
The script is laden with painfully outdated representations and vacillates between snooze-inducing speechifying and bare-bones storytelling that doesn't elucidate a damn thing Mar 8, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4
The script is laden with painfully outdated representations and vacillates between snooze-inducing speechifying and bare-bones storytelling that doesn't elucidate a damn thing
Katie Walsh
This has far, far too many soliloquies... The material itself isn't worthy of it. Sep 19, 2019 | Full Review…
This has far, far too many soliloquies... The material itself isn't worthy of it.
Tim Cogshell
An above-average oater. Jun 22, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An above-average oater.
Matt Brunson
A notable western that sharply reformulates the legend of Billy the Kid. [Full Review in Spanish] May 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
A notable western that sharply reformulates the legend of Billy the Kid. [Full Review in Spanish]
Víctor López G.
The Kid follows an unusual narrative structure, lollygagging from one setting to another, and taking far too long to make its point. Apr 30, 2019 | Rating: C | Full Review…
The Kid follows an unusual narrative structure, lollygagging from one setting to another, and taking far too long to make its point.
Dustin Chase
As much as the doomsayers insist, the western will never die. [Full review in Spanish] Apr 29, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
As much as the doomsayers insist, the western will never die. [Full review in Spanish]
Alberto Luchini
A notable effort. [Full Review in Spanish] Apr 28, 2019 | Full Review…
A notable effort. [Full Review in Spanish]
Javier Ocaña
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