Synopsis
Nothing is harder to track than the truth.
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
2017 Directed by Taylor Sheridan
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Jeremy Renner Elizabeth Olsen Gil Birmingham Kelsey Asbille Teo Briones Tantoo Cardinal Matthew Del Negro Hugh Dillon Julia Jones James Jordan Eric Lange Martin Sensmeier Jon Bernthal Graham Greene Apesanahkwat Althea Sam Tokala Black Elk Tyler Laracca Shayne J. Cullen Dallin Tusieseina Austin R. Grant Ian Bohen Gabe Casdorph Mason D. Davis Chris Romrell Blake Robbins Norman Lehnert Ian Roylance Gus Sheridan Show All…
Bob Weinstein Harvey Weinstein Robert Jones Deepak Nayar Sigurjón Sighvatsson Vincent Maraval David Glasser Peter Berg Brahim Chioua Basil Iwanyk Tim White Agnès Mentre Matthew George Nicolas Chartier Jonathan Deckter Wayne Marc Godfrey Nik Bower Elizabeth A. Bell Wayne L. Rogers Braden Aftergood Trevor White Jonathan Fuhrman Erica Lee Christopher H. Warner Jennifer Chapman
Roland N. Thai Dean A. Zupancic Alan Robert Murray Tom Ozanich Tim LeBlanc Curt Schulkey Jason King Marc Mnémosyne
Wild Bunch Thunder Road Voltage Pictures Film 44 Star Thrower Entertainment The Fyzz Acacia Filmed Entertainment Riverstone Pictures Synergics Films Savvy Media Holdings Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
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i’m willing to ignore how poorly written the women characters are because its overarching message about the prevalence of violence against native women is nowhere near discussed as much as it should be.
however, i can’t ignore the fact that the protagonist is ... a white man. worse, it’s jeremy renner. if the lead was a native woman, even a native man, this would’ve been revolutionary. i understand that there is pressure to cast famous (white) actors in order to get funding from studios, but is it worth undermining your film’s political meaning?
It made me cry and then I went up to taylor Sheridan my new favorite man alive aka a good screenwriter and director and told him
He
Made
Me
Cry and he said that's a goal and then I asked him if I could hug him and he said absolutely and it was precious
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…
women are a fucking force. elizabeth olsen is an angel. jon bernthal is an angel. SHE RAN SIX MILES IN THE SNOW. I FUCKING. BYE.
Speechless.
During the entire final 25 minutes I sat there stiff as a board with my jaw on the floor. Some of the most intense stuff I've ever seen in a movie.
Wind River has compelling characters, engaging story, beautiful visuals, and outstanding performances.
Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and Graham Greene all knock it out of the freaken park. If Renner doesn't get an Oscar Nomination, it will be an absolute travesty.
You would think Taylor Sheridan has been directing for YEARS!
if you put a gun to taylor sheridan’s head and told him to write a good female lead he would die right there on the spot
it's easy to see why people latch onto taylor sheridan, his macho relentlessness and uncompromising violence is the exact kind of stuff that should appeal to my lizard brain tendency toward exploitation but without someone working against his material, finding interesting ways to frame or visualize it (see: mackenzie's sense dignity and tragedy—and keen awareness of performance—in Hell or High Water or villeneuve's lean, existential translation of Sicario's chaotic abyss) his writing is revealed to be the strained genre posturing that it is. with the exception of a particularly savage shootout in the back half this is gross in the name of faux-importance; the most telling scene is the embarrassing prologue that compares a young native woman to sheep, accidentally…
i feel like jeremy renner could have easily been replaced by someone.. not white and it would have been more compelling but tbh this kind of blew my mind and made me cry
there’s no reason why jeremy renners character couldn’t have been played by a native american actor 👀 👀
This is mostly another one of those overdetermined crime bummers, but at least it's not about thwarted white masculinity and/or blue-collar economic misery. Satisfyingly violent when it counts although it'd have been way cooler if [REDACTED] had got fed to [REDACTED].
Both a powerhouse directorial debut and another absolutely stunning piece of writing from Taylor Sheridan, Wind River is without question one of the best films of the year thus far, with well-written and fully developed characters, excellent performances, fantastic atmosphere, superb tension, well-staged set pieces, gripping direction, strong pacing, sweeping cinematography, and brilliantly constructed storytelling.