Press

“Dramatically restrained, unabashedly political.”
- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

“MEEK’S CUTOFF is a real movie-movie, with star performances and literal life-or-death stakes.”
- Karina Longworth, Village Voice

“A revelation of a film.  Bracingly original.”
- A.O. Scott, New York Times

“Astonishing.  A story full of tension and slow-burning suspense.”
- Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club

“A new American classic.”
- Mary Pols, TIME

“Nearly perfect.”
- Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

Grade: A “Sparingly beautiful.  Terrific.”
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

“This is that rare film that’s deeply profound. Absolutely a journey I wouldn’t have missed for the world.”
- Tim Grierson, Yahoo! Movies

“Kelly Reichardt’s most powerful film yet. She immerses us in a mesmerizing world.”
- Christy Lemire, Associated Press

“An ambitious feat of visual storytelling. This is a big movie. Its grandeur is measured out in spoonfuls.”
- Stephanie Zachareck, Movieline

“Austere. Visually-stunning. Extraordinarily textured.”
- Karina Longworth, L.A. Weekly

“While plenty of people are anxiously awaiting Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, I suspect I’ve already seen the most beautiful-looking movie this year.”
- Stephanie Zachareck, Movieline

“MEEK’S CUTOFF is a meticulously-constructed piece of art.”
- Matt Mazur, Pop Matters

“Intriguing and beautiful.”
- Owen Van Spall, Eye For Film

“Some kind of masterpiece. Undeniably a fascinatingly idiosyncratic, aesthetically provocative, and occasionally enthralling vision.“
- Kenji Fujishima, Slant Magazine

“Films like this don’t come along very often so we urge you to seek it out.”
- The Playlist

“Reichardt crafts a highly textured narrative that both invokes the mythology of the American frontier and cleverly transcends it.”
- Eric Kohn, Indiewire

“Recalls Jim Jarmusch’s DEAD MAN and even Werner Herzog’s AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD.”
- J. Hoberman, Village Voice