Scorsese’s engrossing historical thriller is a three-hander on an epic canvas.
The series is like a Magic Eye picture in reverse: The more you focus your attention on it, the less there is to see.
Wendell & Wild is easily legible as a retread of Henry Selick’s past work.
The film’s ludicrous seriousness comes to feel like a mask for what’s essentially a genre story of murder and mayhem.
If the film’s visual splendor lacks profundity, Costner does provide a handful of transcendent moments.
In the spirit of the great Sioux tradition, I dub Kevin Costner “Directorial One-Hit Wonder.”