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Woman Walks Ahead gets some extra mileage out of watchable work from Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes, but uneven pacing and two-dimensional characters undermine their efforts.
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As a New York widow who travels to South Dakota in 1889 to paint Sitting Bull, the stellar Jessica Chastain can't save this Hollywoodized frontier biopic from grave historical inaccuracy. July 2, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
As a New York widow who travels to South Dakota in 1889 to paint Sitting Bull, the stellar Jessica Chastain can't save this Hollywoodized frontier biopic from grave historical inaccuracy.
Peter Travers
Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western. July 2, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western.
Tomris Laffly
Woman Walks Ahead is too often one step behind in making us care. June 29, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Woman Walks Ahead is too often one step behind in making us care.
Susan Wloszczyna
The good intentions it carries out to the plains don't make up for the tentative falseness at its center, a hero who could herself benefit from a portraitist's clear vision. June 28, 2018 | Full Review…
The good intentions it carries out to the plains don't make up for the tentative falseness at its center, a hero who could herself benefit from a portraitist's clear vision.
Alan Scherstuhl
It's all ridiculously romanticized and self-serving. But the performances are so good and Michael Eley's vistas, shimmeringly shot in New Mexico, are so stunning, it feels churlish to resist June 28, 2018 | Full Review…
It's all ridiculously romanticized and self-serving. But the performances are so good and Michael Eley's vistas, shimmeringly shot in New Mexico, are so stunning, it feels churlish to resist
Jeannette Catsoulis
But if it doesn't exactly feel revelatory or deeply explored as a historical document, it's still an intriguing story, capably told. June 27, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…
But if it doesn't exactly feel revelatory or deeply explored as a historical document, it's still an intriguing story, capably told.
Leah Greenblatt
Impressively skirts usual awkwardness of white privilege amidst suffering minorities...Sitting Bull (charismatic Michael Greyeyes)...in beautiful scenes of gorgeous West. January 1, 2020 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Impressively skirts usual awkwardness of white privilege amidst suffering minorities...Sitting Bull (charismatic Michael Greyeyes)...in beautiful scenes of gorgeous West.
Nora Lee Mandel
A strong film made from a weak premise that it cannot overcome, no matter how powerful the pedigree behind and in front of the camera. July 17, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A strong film made from a weak premise that it cannot overcome, no matter how powerful the pedigree behind and in front of the camera.
Dominic Griffin
It's a would-be prestige picture that aims for something higher and misses. October 29, 2018 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
It's a would-be prestige picture that aims for something higher and misses.
Sean Mulvihill
An ideal role for Chastain, luminous in radiating both Weldon's ferocity and unadorned admiration of Sitting Bull, who is played with gravitas but also an ingratiating lack of pretense that makes the burgeoning friendship between the two feel authentic. October 22, 2018 | Full Review…
An ideal role for Chastain, luminous in radiating both Weldon's ferocity and unadorned admiration of Sitting Bull, who is played with gravitas but also an ingratiating lack of pretense that makes the burgeoning friendship between the two feel authentic.
Stephen Saito
Woman Walks Ahead doesn't accomplish all that it could, but it's far from a bad film, or even a mediocre one. It avoids over-romanticizing the American West, even as it trades on romance. September 12, 2018 | Full Review…
Woman Walks Ahead doesn't accomplish all that it could, but it's far from a bad film, or even a mediocre one. It avoids over-romanticizing the American West, even as it trades on romance.
Lauren Humphries-Brooks
Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes are perfect for their roles, as is the entire supporting cast. Add in great cinematography and musical score and you have a very entertaining film. July 21, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes are perfect for their roles, as is the entire supporting cast. Add in great cinematography and musical score and you have a very entertaining film.
Jackie K. Cooper
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