Western
| Release Date: September 25, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
89
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlSep 25, 2015
The film, a hard jewel of beauty and reportage, demands and rewards that second viewing. Read full review
91
The PlaylistKatie WalshSep 24, 2015
In Western, the filmmaking philosophy remains the same, but the subject is new and different, and the storytelling is deeper, nuanced, and honed by experience. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenSep 24, 2015
The film’s bracing ground-level truths, by turns hopeful and despairing, challenge Beltway anxieties about the “porousness” of the border and shake up preconceived notions about Americans’ relationships with their southern neighbors. Read full review
90
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 24, 2015
As a dreamy yet concrete evocation of lives beset by unseen anxieties and dwindling resources, Western has a mythic quality in keeping with its totemic title. Read full review
90
VarietyScott FoundasSep 24, 2015
A low-key but sharply observed work that benefits from real local flavor and a gift for lyric image making. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldSep 24, 2015
With its evocative landscapes and its non-narrative, cinéma vérité style, Western is a layered, atmospheric chronicle of living traditions like bullfights and rodeos, mariachi bands and Texas two-steps. Yet the film also records the tremors of change. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineChristopher GraySep 24, 2015
After the film's early optimism and speculative midsection, Western struggles to manage all the rich dramatic irony of its final half hour, perched uneasily between plot and stasis. Read full review
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