Butcher's Crossing

Name: Butcher's Crossing
Genre: Drama, Western
Released: October 20, 2023
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Amber Rose Mason, Duncan Vezain, Fred Hechinger, Gabriel Clark, Jeff Medley

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Saban Films | Release Date: October 20, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Amber Rose Mason, Duncan Vezain, Fred Hechinger, Gabriel Clark, Jeff Medley, Jeremy Bobb, Nicolas Cage, Paul Raci, Rachel Keller, Scott McCauley, Xander Berkeley, Zuzu Weingart

Summary: Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Nicolas Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge.Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Nicolas Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge. Based on the novel by John Edward Williams.… Expand

Director: Gabe Polsky

Genre(s): Drama, Western

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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William Bibbiani

Sep 17, 2022

Polsky’s film digs into the rot in his characters’ psyches for a time but gradually climbs back out again, perhaps in an attempt to put their madness in a larger context social context. But mostly the final act of the film comes across like clunky, though well-earned, moralizing. Read full review

The Playlist Andrew Crump

Sep 17, 2022

Butcher’s Crossing is a gorgeous travelog. It’s also a warning about what happens when people fail to tread lightly in the natural world, both as a consequence of nature and themselves. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Oct 20, 2023

Butcher’s Crossing is a tightly spun, well-acted, beautifully shot and unforgiving slice of Old West madness. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Sep 17, 2022

Despite Nicolas Cage’s committed performance as the imposing, hardheaded leader of the expedition, this mournful yarn can’t quite transcend what’s familiar about its study of masculinity and the unforgiving spirit of the natural world. Read full review

Screen Rant Nadir Samara

Oct 28, 2023

Though the script is not spectacular it has its moments and a realistic tension that cannot be ignored. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Oct 19, 2023

It has a classical moral that would have made Aesop salute: Greed is not only corrupting, it can be self-defeating. Moreover, suspense lies both in wanting to know whether Miller’s quest will succeed and in what lessons might be learned. Though Miller’s actions drive the story, it is mainly an education for Will, the observer. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Oct 20, 2023

Butcher’s Crossing is unfocused, distant, and flat. Read full review

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