This is a DVD package that seems not to want to be noticed, by a show that was made more or less in the same spirit.
This stunning yet frustratingly remote film gets the exemplary transfer it deserves.
The film’s principal project is to trade in questionable racial characterization as a catalyst for its white protagonist’s personal fulfillment.
The film reverses the western’s traditional forms and dynamics to create something new and startling, yet still familiar.
Sure, Martin McDonagh is still pushing the envelope—but to where?
The film’s pleasures are to be found almost entirely in the meticulously recreated period design.
The focus of the bonus features is rightfully on Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio’s titanic, emotional performances.
Exasperating for its mundane narrative of youthful non-courtship camouflaged by Manhattan street-video naturalism.
Sam Mendes’s first, most crucial mistake is to buy what the Wheelers are selling.