The movie The Snowman wishes it was.

Taylor Sheridan is one of my favorite people in Hollywood. He writes mature movies with adult themes for an adult audience. After killing it with screenplays for both Sicario and Hell or High Water; he takes it up a level with writing and now directing, Wind River. A murder mystery set in the snow hills of Wyoming.

Mr Sheridan uses themes he’s familiar with. A naive at times FBI Agent in over her head. (Sicario) A story about the poor working class and their daily struggles. (Hell or High Water) With Wind River, he makes his Agent more confident in her decisions and actions, and he explores the hardships of the day-to-day life…

Quite a bit of hype surrounding this film from the writer of Sicario and......it's fine I guess. Olsen is the fish-out-of-water conduit for the audience, discovering the ebb and flow of the desolate Wyoming landscape as she goes. Renner is the old-hand who magically gets on with everyone and has stirring speeches up his sleeve for every occasion. It's a frontier story dressed-up as a murder mystery/crime slow burn thriller. The themes of confrontation and loss are correct and present. At times it feels a little uneven in pace, it rushes through parts that need time for reflection and then lingers on parts that don't necessarily warrant the extra time. Oddly some of the dialogue also sticks out like a…

In snowy north Wyoming Cory, a park ranger (Jeremy Renner) stumbles across the body of an American Indian teenage girl. The FBI are called in and arrive in the form of Jane (Elizabeth Olsen) who is ill prepared for the climate nor the lawlessness that is rampant in these remote places. The jurisdictional puzzle that results from the fact the girl was found on reservation land is just one element in a procedural investigation that makes the stunning and deadly landscape part of the story.

Hawkeye and The Scarlet Witch work well together and writer/director Taylor Sheridan wisely avoids shoehorning in a romantic subplot. Nor is this a twisty mystery - this is an ugly crime carried out and investigated…

I was so ready for Jeremy Renner to start plowing Elisabeth Olson. But in all serious this has to be one of Renner’s best performances. I normally feel like I’m pretty desensitized when it comes to shit that is tough to watch but god damn that flashback scene was unsettling. I just wish they went a little deeper into Lambert’s past. But they did do a great job capturing the darkness of the town and setting in Wyoming. Its like it’s own character. And there are some great lines about survival that really show how where you live affects the way you think. This movie really has a strong message about Native Americans and how they’re treated by the government…

Un thriller cubierto por la nieve, el dolor y la derrota.
La gélida naturaleza de Wind River parte del lugar en el que se desarrolla y de las personas que lo habitan, indicio del dominio de Taylor Sheridan sobre los mandatos del género, tan evidente y estimulante como en nuestras favoritas, de Fargo a La Isla Mínima.
Sin la inclemencia de las tierras de Wyoming, sin la languidez de los pobladores de la reserva, despojados de casi todo –apenas reconocidos por las estadísticas, por la Historia oficial, incluso por el wéstern–, sin la pesadumbre que arrastra ese rastreador de depredadores al que da vida un gran Jeremy Renner, esta película sería un policiaco más.
En definitiva, sin toda esa nieve…