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Nov 14, 2014 · The Homesman doesn't play things safe, and that's a welcome change. It's a risky film. Sometimes the risks pay off, sometimes they don't, but the feeling of risk infuses the film with chaos, humor, violence, beauty.
Nov 15, 2014 · By Bilge Ebiri, a film critic for New York and Vulture. Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman is a halting, uncertain work by design. Set in the bleak, forbidding loneliness of the Nebraska territory in...
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Nov 14, 2014 · Set in a flat, unforgiving stretch of the American frontier in the decade before the Civil War, “The Homesman” is both a captivating western and a meticulous, devastating feminist critique of ...
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May 4, 2024 · The Homesman concludes with George all alone, boarding a boat headed back West. As he belts out an old English dirge and fires a pistol into the air, Mary's wooden grave plaque falls into the ...
Nov 20, 2014 · It has been suspected of misogyny – and then defended as feminist. Neither is quite accurate, although ideological responses have probably been amplified by critical shock at a certain late ...
Nov 13, 2014 · Here, too, the frontier is the place where civilization goes to die. But for all its laddish title, The Homesman may be the first to retool this terrain into an arena that drove women to insanity ...
Nov 14, 2014 · Nothing lasts long in the austere Wild West of Tommy Lee Jones ‘ “The Homesman.”. Crops, infants, kindness, sanity: all are rubbed out of existence by human frailty and the cruel whims of ...
