Five Fingers For Marseilles
Uncork'd Entertainment | Release Date: September 7, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesTeo BugbeeSep 6, 2018
In stylish and entertaining fashion, Five Fingers for Marseilles looks over the South African countryside and finds fresh vistas for the western genre. Read full review
80
Film ThreatBradley GibsonSep 25, 2018
Superb acting by all the leads and supporting players populate the desolate landscape with human dramas large and small in a place where people scrape a living out of harsh conditions. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 13, 2018
That the circuitous international influence of the western should manifest itself in South Africa is no surprise. Neither is the fact that someone as charismatic as Mr. Dabula should be the star of such a story, which is ripe with indignation, injustice, righteous violence and, ultimately, a shootout of cosmic resonance. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin CrustSep 13, 2018
The ending is both shocking and inevitable. Drummond and Matthews honor the western traditions, classic, spaghetti and revisionist, while creating something stylishly original steeped in the seldom-seen rural and tribal cultures of South Africa. Read full review
80
VarietyJoe LeydonSep 6, 2018
Five Fingers for Marseilles turns out to be an impressively effective and engrossing cross-cultural hybrid that has a great deal more than novelty value going for it. Read full review
75
The Film StageJared MobarakSep 6, 2018
Everything you want from a western thematically is present with arch stereotypes of good and evil prevalent but never detrimental to the characters. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreSep 6, 2018
Five Fingers for Marseilles is a modern day Western, a tale of revolutionary South Africa and its aftermath, a world of blood, revenge, “stepping in” to right a great wrong, and fighting back. It’s a Sotho “Shane,” brutally beautiful and iconic, fraught with symbolism, harrowing in its violence and its consequences. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 5, 2018
Five Fingers of Marseilles is simultaneously familiar and unique. As befits a film set in an isolated corner of the pre-and-post-Apartheid country, the movie incorporates its contemporaneous circumstances into the plot. Read full review
63
Film Journal InternationalAndré HerefordSep 6, 2018
It cannot, unfortunately, boast a taut pace and narrative to match the mood of unease that fills the air like dust in this depressed desert outpost. Read full review
61
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpSep 8, 2018
The film’s vistas are beautiful and Matthews’s aim, high, but those aspirations are not fully realized in what feels like a first draft attempt at brushing Western customs with textures drawn from a South African palette. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt FagerholmSep 7, 2018
There are no thrills in this western yarn, just a mounting series of tragedies that are by turns frustrating and numbing. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJosh WiseSep 4, 2018
What happens in this neo-western isn't dictated by the tried and true themes of classic westerns but by the films themselves. Read full review
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