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Critic Reviews for Hostiles
All Critics (22) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (7)
Hostiles is a brutal if well-intentioned film that doesn't help its cause with its lack of development of its Native characters. December 15, 2017 | Full Review… Emily Yoshida New York Magazine/Vulture Top Critic
It's an exercise in strained seriousness, the potential ironies and dramatic tensions lost in a repetitive, episodic, and politically vapid narrative. December 14, 2017 | Rating: C+ | Full Review… Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club Top Critic
A flawed, but interesting drama. September 12, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Peter Bradshaw Guardian Top Critic
"Hostiles" ultimately falls back on the same one-dimensional archetypes, depicting Native Americans either as ruthless savages or as stoic sages, with nothing in between. September 7, 2017 | Full Review… Peter Debruge Variety Top Critic
A mournful, sorrowful, persistently powerful Western set in a world of beauty, tears and blood. September 3, 2017 | Full Review… Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter Top Critic
With an exceptional lead performance by Bale and some of the year's most stunning cinematography, Hostiles ruff-and-tumble world is worth visiting. December 6, 2017 | Full Review… Victor Stiff Film School Rejects
This latest incarnation of the great American Western finds its truth in the tangled roots of our own mythmaking. December 6, 2017 | Full Review… Sasha Stone TheWrap
Christian Bale does a star turn as a macho soldier in this sometimes beautiful and sometimes flawed western. December 6, 2017 | Rating: B- | Full Review… Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A solid addition to the post-Unforgiven western. November 29, 2017 | Full Review… Fred Topel We Live Entertainment
This is a somber, contemplative, steadied film infused with resonant, modern social commentary. Overall, Hostiles gives a fully satisfying audience experience. November 28, 2017 | Rating: B | Full Review… Courtney Howard Fresh Fiction
Between bouts of violence, it's a dull journey November 16, 2017 | Full Review… Luke Y. Thompson Wizard
Hostiles is as poetic as it is ferocious, and entertains while being thought-provoking. October 21, 2017 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Travis Hopson Punch Drunk Critics
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