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Its unusual approach won't be for all viewers, but True History of the Kelly Gang takes a distinctively postmodern look at Australia's past.
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Those who enjoy gritty, angry Westerns (especially those set in the Australian bush rather than along the American frontier) will find much here to their taste, none of which is in need of additional seasoning. May 8, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Those who enjoy gritty, angry Westerns (especially those set in the Australian bush rather than along the American frontier) will find much here to their taste, none of which is in need of additional seasoning.
James Berardinelli
There's a texture and a muck that are so tangible that they really put you in the middle of this film. You can taste it and you can smell it. April 24, 2020 | Full Review…
There's a texture and a muck that are so tangible that they really put you in the middle of this film. You can taste it and you can smell it.
Christy Lemire
This is myth-making, splattered in blood, scored with an electric guitar, and enacted with such brazen bigness that you wouldn't be surprised if the cast assembled for a curtain call at the end. April 24, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
This is myth-making, splattered in blood, scored with an electric guitar, and enacted with such brazen bigness that you wouldn't be surprised if the cast assembled for a curtain call at the end.
Matt Zoller Seitz
But for all its real visual flair, it's hard not to feel that the film misses something crucial about Kelly in the end - trading machismo for manhood, and sensation for true history. April 24, 2020 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
But for all its real visual flair, it's hard not to feel that the film misses something crucial about Kelly in the end - trading machismo for manhood, and sensation for true history.
Leah Greenblatt
Kurzel's film doesn't simply show us the shattered masculinity and class rage that fueled Kelly's infamous late 19th-century crime spree, it shoots that energy outward like sparks from a forge. April 24, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Kurzel's film doesn't simply show us the shattered masculinity and class rage that fueled Kelly's infamous late 19th-century crime spree, it shoots that energy outward like sparks from a forge.
Oliver Jones
"True History of the Kelly Gang," for its part, strikes just the right balance of scary and crazy, and it subjects both to an impressive measure of discipline. April 24, 2020 | Full Review…
"True History of the Kelly Gang," for its part, strikes just the right balance of scary and crazy, and it subjects both to an impressive measure of discipline.
Justin Chang
They make Ned Kelly more punk rock. May 27, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
They make Ned Kelly more punk rock.
Aaron Neuwirth
Neither true nor history, this flight of fantasy has too few moments of excitement buried in the taxing rhetoric. May 24, 2020 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
Neither true nor history, this flight of fantasy has too few moments of excitement buried in the taxing rhetoric.
Ron Wilkinson
The truth is not something to be cherished in this fictionalized biopic. May 15, 2020 | Rating: B | Full Review…
The truth is not something to be cherished in this fictionalized biopic.
Dennis Schwartz
The film is violent, absorbing, and a must for any western fan. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Ari Wegner. The cast is first-rate. May 13, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The film is violent, absorbing, and a must for any western fan. Beautifully shot by cinematographer Ari Wegner. The cast is first-rate.
Joe Friar
In trading the American frontier for barren branch graveyards and facts largely for fiction, this stylized folk tale is patched together by the same needles that weave myths. May 13, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
In trading the American frontier for barren branch graveyards and facts largely for fiction, this stylized folk tale is patched together by the same needles that weave myths.
Luke Parker
A stylish and visceral film that questions the veracity of the myths and legends that are part of every nation's history. [Full Review in Spanish] May 10, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A stylish and visceral film that questions the veracity of the myths and legends that are part of every nation's history. [Full Review in Spanish]
Rene Sanchez
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