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Nov 20, 2014 · The Homesman, film review: Jones finds new frontiers in the Old West. This film is probably the best Western since Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven – so inscrutable, so distinctive and, finally, so ...
Nov 13, 2014 · Barely. The Homesman lacks the scope and depth of Jones’ dynamite 2005 directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. But Jones and Swank, walking the tightrope between comic and ...
The Homesman strikes a resounding chord that all filmmakers in the Western — or any genre — should strive to reach. If they’re lucky, they’ll find their way . . . Jones has lit it brightly. Critical Movie Critic Rating: 5. Movie Review: S.I.N. Theory (2012) Movie Review: Blackhat (2015) Tagged: cowboys, novel adaptation, suicide. Movie ...
Feb 11, 2014 · A “homesman” must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county’s men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy—ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful. Brave as she is, Mary Bee knows she cannot succeed alone. The only companion she can find is the low-life claim jumper George Briggs.
Nov 10, 2014 · After “Moneyball,” Bennett Miller offers a doomier sports story. Anthony Lane reviews “Foxcatcher,” with Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo.
Set in 1854 in the harsh Nebraska frontier, a low-life drifter George Briggs (Oscar-Winner Tommy Lee Jones) is rescued by a pious, independent-minded woman named Mary Bee Cuddy (Oscar-Winner Hilary Swank). To pay back his debt, George reluctantly agrees to help Mary transport three women driven mad by the harsh frontier life across the treacherous land – where a kindly minister’s wife ...
Nov 15, 2014 · Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman is a halting, uncertain work by design. Set in the bleak, forbidding loneliness of the Nebraska territory in the 1850s, the film presents the absurdity of ...
