Meeks Cutoff

  • 2011


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86 % Certified Fresh
$ 1 Million
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Positive Reviews 91
Negative reviews 14
Average Rating 3.8/5
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2.0
Yet Meeks Cutoff isnt a minimalist experiment: Instead, it advances a story full of tension and slow burning suspense, as the fates of weary pioneers .. Av Club
3.0
Under Oregon skies, theres political subtext for the taking in this terrific, unsettling film. EW
4.4
She doesnt make it easy for us with simplistic character conflict. Rogerebert
4.0
The movie gives thoughtful viewers plenty to ponder, and plenty of situations in the story have two right answers, but no definitive one. Common Sense Media
4.5
Based on a real incident, their plight builds under increasingly frantic pressure, as the bland scenery amounting to a dreamlike vista that transcends .. Indie Wire
4.5
taken on her biggest budget (essentially a thicker shoestring) and most recognizable cast yet, while fully retaining her patient, deliberate approach .. Variety
4.5
Meeks Cutoff is a thoughtful, and intimate narrative that is beautifully shot and has outstanding direction. We Got This Covered
4.4
Reichardts incredible formal achievement refreshingly deflates the western of the macho posturing that frequently plagues the genre.
5.0
A mesmerizing cinematic journey that is often as arduous and spare as the lives of its hard bitten protagonists.
4.5
A realistic slice of pioneer life that offers a disquieting alternative vision of Americas most mythic location. The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
This revisionist Western intellectually, aesthetically, and narratively absorbing rattles to the bone, but never quite rends the heart.
2.5
Tension is a loose term at best when it comes to the plotted drama of Meeks Cutoff. E Film Critic
2.0
The film, which clearly owes a debt to Terrence Malicks Days of Heaven, proceeds at a snails pace. Telegraph
4.0
Reichardt has stripped Meeks down to bare essentials and careful emotions. The cast captures that quality beautifully like the water that is running o ..
2.5
As it stands, Meeks Cutoff could have made a brilliant 12 minute short. San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
This impressionist Western wont be everyones slug of bourbon but its a slow burn that will richly reward the patient.
3.0
Narrator Morgan Freeman manages to be both soothing and somber, so its not until the credits roll that we realize how much more we want to know. Ny Daily News
4.4
A film ponderously slow in pace yet kinetically charged with insight; starkly realistic yet allegorical too; psychologically astute yet politically re .. The Globe And Mail
3.0
Meeks Cutoff is earnest and sober to the point of suffocation, which often happens when the decision is made to shut off the air of entertainment. Philly
3.8
And the ending leaves everything open for interpretation and examination, and thats a good thing. Philly
4.0
Michele Williams does an incredible job depicting this womans dramatic spiritual transformation. Spirituality And Practice
4.5
Recalls Jim Jarmuschs Dead Man and even Werner Herzogs Aguirre: The Wrath of God in its evocation of frontier surrealism and manifest destiny madness; .. Village Voice
2.0
Offbeat and most interesting western about emigrant pioneers lost in the prairie. Sover
4.5
Imagine a collaboration between John Ford and Wallace Stevens and you might get a sense of what Kelly Reichardt pulls off here: a sincere re creation .. Chicago Reader
2.0
She takes languid down a notch with her original western saga Meeks Cutoff and succeeds in making the quiet story of survival another original.
2.0
She takes languid down a notch with her original western saga Meeks Cutoff and succeeds in making the quiet story of survival another original.
0.6
Headache inducing visuals aside, Cave of Forgotten Dreams suffers from a repetitive, almost academic sensibility thats certain to alienate even the mo .. Reel Film Reviews
3.0
The emigrants dont trust the Indian, but they dont trust Meek either. Lariat
2.0
Its an intriguing take on actual diaries kept by women pioneers of the time, but their journey may be as punishing for some viewers as it was for them .. Radio Times
3.0
The ending will divide opinion between hauntingly ambiguous and cop out. Independent
4.4
Kelly Reichardt has crafted a haunted dream of a movie to get lost in. Rolling Stone
4.0
All of them have doubts about both Meek, who isnt delivering as promised, and the Indian, who doesnt speak a word of English. Shadows On The Wall
4.5
Violence potential and inevitable shapes each moment in this extraordinary film. Rarely visible and never cathartic, this violence is instead like the .. Pop Matters
4.0
Beautifully shot and impressively directed, this is a haunting, contemplative western with terrific performances from Bruce Greenwood and Michelle Wil .. View London
3.0
Williams also starred in Reichardts last, and best, film, Wendy and Lucy, and she clearly has a special affinity for the director, for whom she shows .. Cs Monitor
4.4
But Reichardts deliberate direction and editing, Jonathan Raymonds barebones script and Christopher Blauvelts scrumptious camerawork hold viewers atte .. New York Post
4.5
Forget that old computer game you may have played in middle school: Kelly Reichardts fourth feature is a beautifully evocative portrait of life on the .. Film Journal International ..
4.0
You wont find gun battles or thrilling chases on horseback or dramatic, swelling music. Az Central
4.4
Told largely in long shot, its a painfully, beautifully slow film, which is understandable given the time, place, and situation. Boston
4.5
Gradually we learn theyre a breakaway party from a larger wagon train. Guardian
4.0
Kelly Reichardts gaunt, mysterious and superbly calibrated movie about pioneers and the old American west appears to have come from another age from t .. Guardian
4.5
Their failure to re establish genuine rapport signals a more profound disenchantment. Slate
3.0
Then theres that incongruous yellow parakeet confined in its cage. Susang Ranger
4.0
Whats The Deal: If theres a genre even more suited to political allegory than horror, its the Western. Movies
4.4
If you allow its windswept silences to work on you, Meeks Cutoff gathers its own snakelike sense of momentum... Chicago Tribune
4.0
With its mythic, dreamlike atmosphere, hints of feminism and a subversive touch of political allegory, Meeks Cutoff is a bold new take on the Old West .. Total Film
2.0
It doesnt hurt that its casting includes Julie Christie opposite Warren Beatty. Coles Mithey
3.0
This is the sort of film critics love to praise because the filmmaker has done good work before; and well, there must be something there. Well, theres .. Detroit News
4.4
An existential nightmare of maddening uncertainty, a notion only emphasized by Reichardts commitment to ambiguity. Groucho Reviews
3.8
Occasionally, the film which, admittedly, has one of those abrupt, what just happened endings that can leave audiences fuming doesnt say enough itself .. Nj
2.0
presented people who were so devoid of personality, humor and interest that I didnt care if any of them made it out alive 7M Pictures
3.5
Michelle Williams is now the only Dawsons Creek cast member with a chat worthy film career. The Age
3.5
Kelly Reichardts extremely modest film is slow, but it is also intriguing, moving and meaningful. Abc
4.4
Meeks Cutoff, certainly a deliberate title for a story touching on fear of the unknown, is the human experience stripped to its bones. Red Eye Chicago
4.5
Those with the courage to explore uncharted territory will be rewarded with a rough gem of a movie. Stl Today
3.0
Grade: B Reichardt has made a richer film, beautifully shot by Christopher Blauvelt. Cleve Land
2.5
They look out at a desolate landscape that doesnt appear to be changing any time soon. Dustin Put Man
5.0
Reichardts film, for all its elusiveness, manages a more rewarding focus. Larsen On Film
1.5
A more subversive than revisionist feminist western, and with a title intimating iconic macho cowboy metaphorical castration. While touching on curren .. News Blaze
3.0
Meeks Cutoff is a picture of extraordinary detail and deliberate execution, rewarding the brave with a rare screen realism thats hypnotic. Brian Or Ndorf
4.5
a thin line between the intangibly graceful and the merely frustrating in its rejection of narrativity. Antagony & Ecstasy
3.8
May well be truer to what the migration west was like for many settlers than Hollywoods romanticized and sanitized version of such stories. Js Online
5.0
Thanks to brilliant directorial decisions matched by a cast that was clearly inspired by this unique effort, this will surely be one of the most memor .. Hollywood Chicago
4.5
Highlighted by precise performances, simmering tensions and unforgiving landscapes, this odd rarity an arthouse western will help broaden Reichardts r .. Sbs
5.0
Simultaneously a compelling allegory and a hallucinatory fable, Meeks Cutoff is the most ambitious and accomplished film Reichardt has yet made. The Skinny
4.5
Be warned. Some stretches are almost as much of a slog for the viewer as they are for the pioneers... But Meeks Cutoff conveys a far more realistic ac .. What So
3.0
Not an easy journey for the characters or their audience, Reichardts film demands respect for its sheer bloody minded determination to leave its own q .. Film 4
4.5
This quiet and very slow moving picture resonated deeply with me. Streaming Quickflix
5.0
This is the film that should have won an Oscar in its foreign language category this year and didnt. Wsj
4.0
Stripped of Hollywood embellishment, Meeks Cutoff examines issues of leadership, trust and the other in ways that suggest it could be taken as a metap .. Jam! Movies
4.5
Demanding, ultimately mesmerizing variation on an antique theme wanders off into a wilderness of its own where the essential stoic loneliness of what .. East Bay Express
4.5
No, the con isnt consciousI dont think Reichardt believes shes anything but a visionary. Ny Mag
3.0
At once an intimate drama about a group of emigrants led dangerously off course in 1874 Oregon, and an epically ambitious think piece about nothing le .. Film Blather
4.5
Williams yet again commands the screen and Reichardts steady hand in this unpredictable and thoroughly uncompromising film is astonishing. Trespass Mag
2.5
The movie lacks compelling characters and the trivial conversations are mumbled. Entertainment Spectrum
4.5
The emotional conveyance of solitude and survivalist nature speaks volumes thanks to wonderful panoramic lensing of the emptiness and barrenness of th ..
4.4
This is the arid equivalent of Werner Herzogs Aguirre, Wrath of God. Reichardt offers the minimum of genre conventions and none of the genres satisfac .. Boston Phoenix
4.5
Its a severe life in a hostile world, observed with such delicate detail that the film achieves a grace and poetry. But it is also a primal piece of f .. Stream On Demand At Home
2.0
A slow, methodical, carefully researched look at traveling the Oregon trail before stagecoaches became extinct. Compuserve
3.0
returns to the craft of the deconstructionist western, ...stripped bare of the mythmaking, shiny spurs and hero worship, leaving a reality so stark it .. Metro Times
1.5
While I would love to fully appreciate this circular, feminist, counter cinema perspective, no payoff makes for an audience that feels cheated. Ny Press
4.5
It challenges patriarchy and racism, but it never risks questioning received political ideas. Ny Press
3.0
Reichardts boldness in eschewing a sprawling retelling of how the West was won should be applauded, but she hasnt yet earned the right to take this lo .. Little White Lies
4.0
A cinematic immersion of both modest and cosmic proportions, beautifully enacted by a cast that makes you fully believe that they are these beleaguere .. MSN Movies
4.5
Meeks Cutoff is an ambitious feat of visual storytelling thats alive to both its landscape and the actors who people it. This is a big movie masquerad .. Movie Line
4.0
By privileging the dynamics between the characters over story, Reichardt has created an extremely rewarding cinematic experience that is rich in polit .. Cinema Autopsy
4.5
It stinks of ego, vanity, and a vacuous emptiness where nothing human lives. The Tyee
3.0
Their assertiveness becomes most pointed when the party captures a wayward Native American. Blog Oregonlive
5.0
The subtle ways in which Reichardt explores how these characters have been playing their socially and religiously assigned parts throughout the movie, .. D Cist
5.0
Meeks Cutoff works wonders even if you dont buy the political metaphor, instead appreciating the film as a historical survival tale and a meditation o .. Host Madison
4.4
A better complement than The Big Trail would be The Blair Witch Project, another film that taps into an American unease with the wilderness that is th .. Commercial Appeal (Memphis ..
4.5
Be warned. Some stretches are almost as much of a slog for the viewer as they are for the pioneers... But Meeks Cutoff conveys a far more realistic ac .. Movie Talk
4.5
Meeks Cutoff is simultaneously cerebral and astonishingly cinematic, a historical road movie that stretches the inhospitable landscapes and marginal l .. Bfi
2.0
We watch them trudge for miles, growing tired of listening to the squeaky wheel of a wagon.
4.5
This isnt the only parallel between the two films: Both explore the limits of communication. Not Coming
4.0
Kelly Reichardts spare Meeks Cutoff is a keenly felt film that illustrates both.
3.0
The prose of Jack London has been effectively translated to film via the sparsity of Reichardts intensely detailed neo western. Projection Booth Blog Spot ..
4.0
Its Reichardt once again subtly overturning the myths that have sustained American cinema for decades... Scotsman
4.5
Unfortunately, Meeks Cutoff is a complete disaster, a pretentious, boring, and insufferably arty work that gives independent film a bad name. Louis Proyect Word Press
5.0
Sparse, uncompromising and bewitching. Reichardt has stripped back all but the bare essentials, scattering the characters across the sun bleached land ..
4.5
If only out of self preservation, as hes tiedquite literallyto their fortunes. Parallax View
3.4
Meeks Cutoff may not match Reichardts previous two works in emotional heft, but it continues to cement her as a young director to watch closely. Film and Felt
3.8
Its the anti western western, a story stripped of Zane Gray romance, sagebrush and mythic heroes. Toronto Star
4.5
Slowly, our own exhaustion and concern grow with the travelers weariness. With deft acting and skillful pacing, you can feel the heat and dryness in t .. Ff2 Media
4.5
Meeks Cutoff could be the most understated, and historically accurate, horror film in history. Its both the scariest and most poetic film of the year. Charleston City Paper
5.0
The films most powerful performance belongs to Williams, who shows a spirit and resolve seldom seen before. Her scenes confronting Meek are explosive ..
4.0
The film is both evocative and provocative; atmospherically and conceptually, respectively.
2.0
I rarely feel the heart in my throat suspense that I felt as Reichardts characters sent a covered wagon down a steep hill ... The Other Journal
4.5
He is a voluminous researcher and becomes an expert on whatever material hes working on. Bright Lights Film



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