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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. Jun 30, 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. Jun 30, 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. Jun 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. Jun 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 Jun 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But if it doesn't exactly feel revelatory or deeply explored as a historical document, it's still an intriguing story, capably told. Jun 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But if it doesn't exactly feel revelatory or deeply explored as a historical document, it's still an intriguing story, capably told.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
It's a would-be prestige picture that aims for something higher and misses. Oct 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. Oct 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. Sep 11, 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. Jul 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
...a finely etched character piece that does not disrespect the people that the time betrayed. Jul 21, 2018 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Full Review…
...a finely etched character piece that does not disrespect the people that the time betrayed.
Jonathan W. Hickman
Though based on an empowering story, and containing two fine performances by both Michael Greyeyes and Jessica Chastain, its choppy pacing, unimposing cinematography, and underdeveloped characters make it an unfortunately forgettable endeavor. Jul 18, 2018 | Full Review…
Though based on an empowering story, and containing two fine performances by both Michael Greyeyes and Jessica Chastain, its choppy pacing, unimposing cinematography, and underdeveloped characters make it an unfortunately forgettable endeavor.
David Fontana
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