Natalie Portman produces and stars in a well-intentioned, if hardly radical western.
It was a troubled production, but replacement director Gavin O’Connor has done an impressive job.
If it packed in half as much drama as its shoot managed, this would be a Western to remember. Sadly, this sluggish fable arrives half-cocked.
A very moderate adventure.
The western will have to look elsewhere for a new saviour.
No great passion is being conjured up on screen, just an exhausted sense of relief that things might not be as bad as all that.
It’s all perfectly passable, but rather perfunctory, a word that could never be applied to one of Ramsay’s films.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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