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  Review by BRAT ★★★½ 77

  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?

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  Review by Ava ☭ ★★★★½ 3

  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
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  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

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★½ 29

  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…

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  Review by katie ★★★★ 3

  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.

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  Review by Evan ★★★★½ 9

  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!

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  Review by Dan ★½ 5

  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

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  Review by josh lewis ★★ 13

  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…

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  Review by Caitlin ★★★★ 4

  To anybody who thinks they are ready for this movie: you're not

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★★★ 3

  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.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★½ 5

  “You’d think folks would realize this is sheep country,” a man chortles in the opening scenes of “Wind River,” minutes after an introductory scene in which a local man named Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) obliterates a pack of wolves with his sniper rifle. It’s a long while before the implication of this throwaway line becomes clear, although anyone who’s seen Taylor Sheridan’s tersely didactic “Hell or High Water” should already know that the emerging scribe — here directing one of his own scripts for the first time — doesn’t really do throwaway lines.

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  Review by Marian ★★★★★ 5

  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

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  Review by Rob Schultz ★★★★ 2

  Hawkeye continues to mentor the Scarlet Witch (here using the winking pseudonym "Jane Banner"), this time in dealing with the casual horror regular humans are capable of perpetrating on one another. It's a little unclear whether this takes place before or after Civil War, although my money's on before if they're operating under the auspices of the federal government.

  It's refreshing to have one of these smaller, quieter side stories without Robert Downey Jr. zooming in to save the day every few minutes. Sometimes a regular man with impeccable target shooting skills is enough.