There's more to the story than meets the bull's eye in Slow West, a brainy and genre-defying western by newcomer John Maclean.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
11 Jun 2015
fresh:
It's all of 84 minutes. But when it's done, you know you've seen something.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
28 May 2015
rotten:
Writer-director John Maclean insists at every opportunity that the American west teemed with brutality and that every positive myth about the region was built on a lie, yet he doesn't deliver this familiar revisionist history with much force.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
21 May 2015
fresh:
Maclean's film is a wonderfully dreamy, if meandering, take on the western. Like all movies that use their fantastic surroundings, Slow West is best seen on a big screen.
– Molly Eichel,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
21 May 2015
fresh:
The story builds to an ironic anticlimax that few of the films that inspired this one would embrace.