Wind River - Reviews

“Wind River” is a stark and beautiful and haunting 21st century Western thriller, filled with memorable visuals and poetic dialogue — and scenes of sudden, shocking, brutal violence.

...is a violent, tense thriller, sparse and well paced...

...may be steeped in the real agony of American experience, of the country’s most marginalized, but it still feels like a return to a place more mythic: the sprawling outlaw frontier of Taylor Sheridan’s imagination.

Wind River vividly recreates the bleak, impoverished feel of a real-life reservation where life is tough and the people that little bit tougher.

Sheridan exhibits a sure hand as a director, especially when it comes to action sequences, and 'Wind River' underscores his place as a filmmaker to watch.

...may not blow you away, but this bitter, visceral, and almost parodically intense thriller knows what it takes to survive.

...confirms the director as a rising talent who can be trusted to beat his own enticing path through inhospitable ground.

...his storytelling is meaty but efficient, and his pacing moves along at a steadily engrossing clip before ultimately exploding in a startling blast of violence.

...the Indian Reservation in Wind River is cheaply used as a shortcut to drama, but never actually comes alive.

’Wind River’ er en vellykket anti-western om at håndtere smerte, og om hård retfærdighed af den slags man ikke får gennem de officielle, lovmæssige kanaler.