A movie you cannot turn away from; it is so pitiless and uncompromising, so filled with pathos and disregarded innocence, that it is a record of those things we pray to be delivered from.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
A pitiless yet elegiac Australian Western as caked with beauty as it is with blood.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
The Proposition, a beautiful, bloody meditation on justice, family, and the trap of retribution, is in every respect an artful addition to the canon of six-shooter morality tales.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
A near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
It's the kind of movie we don't often encounter these days, and actually never did: A dramatically dense and morally complicated work, it's also a highly pictorial wide-screen entertainment with a dynamite cast, channeling the legacy of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah (and maybe Joseph Conrad too).Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
The climactic Christmas Day dinner of dreadful retribution is a terrifying prospect, but for anyone with a yen for our great lost genre, it's also some sort of gift.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
The Australian director John Hillcoat makes an audacious, unsettling American feature debut with The Proposition, a revisionist western that brings its own brand of sanguinary honesty to the genre.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
The cast of The Proposition is reason enough to see the film.Read Full Review »
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