Americana
Lionsgate | Release Date: August 15, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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100
The PlaylistSimon ThompsonMar 28, 2023
Taking tropes and toying with them, carefully and creatively hitting social and cultural beats and concepts, there is a refinement at play that contemporizes and enriches the classic presentation of middle America and those who live there. The creative refresh of Americana adds much-needed light and shade to a familiar narrative making it feel unique. Read full review
83
IndieWireRafael MotamayorMar 28, 2023
Tost’s film is charming, gritty, and all-round entertaining one that boasts gallows humor, compelling performances, and a big heart (plus lots of actual hearts being shot at and stabbed). Read full review
80
Rolling StoneMarlow SternApr 7, 2023
Told in five chapters and across multiple storylines, Tost’s first feature is an admirably weird and engaging odyssey that’s like Tarantino meets The Sugarland Express (with a healthy dose of Smokey and the Bandit). It’s brimming with ideas and winning turns, in particular Sweeney and Hauser, whose romantic chemistry is terribly endearing, and McClarnon as the deadpan-hilarious face of anti-colonialist vengeance. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweMar 28, 2023
While Americana doesn’t particularly reinvent the Western, Tost’s portrayal of characters driven by unfettered greed or justifiable need gives voice to often-ignored segments of society as they strive for agency and respect — an admirable quality in any narrative genre. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 15, 2025
Though Hauser and Sweeney can’t exactly save the movie, they keep it from derailing. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreAug 19, 2025
The movie is called Americana, not America, and while it treats characters as mixtures of what they were born into and what they chose for themselves, it suggests that there’s something kitschy about the very idea of national identity, whether it’s defined by what’s in your display case or the color of your eyes. Read full review
70
ColliderRoss BonaimeAug 18, 2025
Americana is an interesting modern take on the Western, with a standout performance by Halsey. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 14, 2025
Compared with “Eddington,” this summer’s other tongue-in-cheek neo-western, the movie, ostensibly set in South Dakota, is less aggressive in its efforts to appear topical; it may not even have much on its mind beyond clever plot construction. But watching its pieces snap into place is more fun. Read full review
67
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerAug 14, 2025
It somehow manages to lack both the true moral murk of a great noir, while also eschewing the elemental drama of a great Western. It’s pretty good at both, though, and Tost seems like he knows it, without letting the movie’s solid craft go to his head. Read full review
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinSep 18, 2025
It doesn’t quite lasso the bronco, but the ambitions of writer-director Tony Tost’s yarn are ambitious and interesting, and he has at least assembled a cracking cast to tell it. Read full review
55
The Daily BeastNick SchagerAug 12, 2025
A sluggish and monotonous country-ified neo-noir that fails to innovate and, worse, to utilize its magnetic leading lady and her capable co-stars. Read full review
50
Film ThreatAlan NgAug 26, 2025
With this cast, the film should have been a knockout. Instead, it feels bogged down, heavy, and way too concerned with making statements instead of just being entertaining. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiAug 15, 2025
The film is blessed with a fairly strong cast and while it isn’t nearly enough to make it succeed as a whole, whatever degree that certain scenes do work are almost entirely due to their efforts. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 14, 2025
The cold-bloodedness of it all suggests a harder-nosed thriller of the “Hell or High Water” school was what Tost had in mind. But he tries to soften that up with sentiment, and the plot and tone never coalesce around that compromise. Read full review
37
Washington PostTy BurrAug 14, 2025
Tost can’t match the oddball inspiration of his influences, and the results simply feel forced. Read full review
25
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiAug 11, 2025
It’s a violently annoying and annoyingly violent ensemble piece speckled with “look how wacky we are!” characters that are impossible to put up with; a copycat Coen Brothers yarn with the depth of a tortilla. Read full review
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