Bone Tomahawk
RLJ Entertainment | Release Date: October 23, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonOct 13, 2015
Bone Tomahawk is a proper Western, a proper horror movie, and by combining the two, becomes something else entirely, and proves hugely enjoyable for it. Read full review
80
EmpireKim NewmanFeb 15, 2016
It has a nice line in wry chatter and a pleasantly old-fashioned ‘lost posse’ plot with engaging, odd characters striving against the wilderness while swapping cynical frontier wisdom. Read full review
80
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonFeb 15, 2016
This is a confident, terrifically enjoyable film, superbly written, shot and performed. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 26, 2015
Bone Tomahawk is terrifying and strange, to be sure, but it’s the old-fashioned veneer that makes it beautiful. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeOct 2, 2015
Bone Tomahawk may seem over-indulgent at 132 minutes, yet it’s the wayward digressions of Zahler’s script — navigated with palpable enjoyment by an expert, Kurt Russell-led ensemble — that are most treasurable in a film that commits wholeheartedly to its own curiosity value. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovOct 21, 2015
Bone Tomahawk is not your typical Western retread, to be sure. If someone had told me that it was adapted from one of Joe R. Lansdale’s genre-hopping horror stories I would have believed it. Kudos then to director Zahler, who on his very first film, buries that g--damn tomahawk deep in the audience’s memory. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 23, 2015
Zahler and his talented cast are willing to take this journey deep into the heart of darkness, and it’s their commitment that makes the entire project more than skin-deep. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyOct 22, 2015
I doubt there’s a huge audience for a movie like Bone Tomahawk, but those who find it may turn it into a new cult classic. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 22, 2015
Zahler's still starkness, enhanced by a fondness for long shots and dark spaces, is refreshing in this shaky-cam era, and his ear for Old West sensibilities — from the mythically polite to the realistically xenophobic — is clinically effective. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisOct 22, 2015
Mr. Russell is far from the only reason to see this unexpected low-budget treat, a witty fusion of western, horror and comedy that gallops to its own beat. That rhythm is dictated entirely by the writer and director, S. Craig Zahler, a novelist and musician who flips genre conventions upside-down and cares more about character than body count. Read full review
70
Village VoiceChris PackhamOct 20, 2015
Bone Tomahawk is an odd duck, a bowlegged western with slasher influences, a penchant for lengthy conversational meanderings, and a genuine interest in character. Read full review
70
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganOct 12, 2015
A cult item par excellence, Bone Tomahawk does for the Western what Gareth Edwards did for Monsters. Long, slow and low-budget, Bone Tomahawk is also disturbingly tense, hyper-violent, and destined to attract an adoring fanboy following. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeOct 2, 2015
Though the film stretches out long enough to impress us with the difficulty of their journey, the four actors ensure that the two hours or so we spend in their company aren't dull. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeOct 21, 2015
S. Craig Zahler’s horror-Western hybrid Bone Tomahawk is a strange movie, one that might take more than one watch to fully understand. Not that it’s deliberately obscure, or has a plot too complicated to follow the first time around. It’s actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 21, 2015
“Bone” is an unflinchingly-violent and stupidly long genre mashup. It’s Tarantino without all the anachronisms and swearing. Read full review
63
ObserverRex ReedOct 21, 2015
The violence is intense, and at two hours and 12 minutes the movie is too long and the pace too leisurely to sustain it, but I wasn’t bored. When in doubt, bring on the Troglodytes. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 19, 2015
One wishes that S. Craig Zahler had more explicitly faced the cultural demons lingering within his premise, attempting to exorcise them. Read full review
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