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Slow West

Wanted Dead or Dead

2015 · 1h 24m · R Action, Drama, Thriller, Western
Directed by John Maclean

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Overview

In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.

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All reviews
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh

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
Fresh

It's all of 84 minutes. But when it's done, you know you've seen something.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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
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
Fresh

The story builds to an ironic anticlimax that few of the films that inspired this one would embrace.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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