Out Stealing Horses
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: August 7, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungFeb 15, 2019
An extraordinary feeling for nature and the seasons of life pervades Out Stealing Horses (Ut Og Stjaele Hester), an ambitious reflection on our responsibility to others from Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 6, 2020
Lushly visual and much of its cinematic power arises from the seductively dreadful space and starkness of the Norwegian landscape in winter. And in the way Mr. Moland and his cinematographer, Rasmus Videbæk, use their delicately detailed, even painterly depictions of the flora and fauna surrounding the film’s very complicated people to put the latter in their cosmic place. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGlenn KennyAug 6, 2020
The overall integrity of the effort is impressive. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeFeb 15, 2019
This is a film with a mature, heartbroken understanding of how we hold onto things. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 15, 2019
The madeline-like specificity of this memory-driven story is its greatest strength, even if it relies on a rusty structure of nested flashbacks in order to reach the past. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 3, 2020
Too subdued for its own good, too stuck in Trond’s head, with his narration, to ever break through. The odd moving moment in a stunning setting — set pieces center around the dangers of small-farm logging — is surrounded by a lot that’s implied, and too little that’s shown. Read full review
60
CineVueRory O’ConnorFeb 15, 2019
Moland is telling a tale of paradise lost but Horses is perhaps less remarkable for its plot than it is for its style. Read full review
60
Screen DailyWendy IdeFeb 15, 2019
Strikingly photographed, sensitively acted but torpid in its pacing, this is filmmaking which will require a degree of patience from its audience. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsAug 7, 2020
There’s some appreciable serenity and a lot of personal grief on display in Out Stealing Horses, but it’s only visible in fits and starts. Read full review
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