Hostiles

This Old West saga’s tale of racism and the near-impossibility of redemption rings all too true today.

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Hostiles itself wants to be both a throwback and an advance, not so much a new kind of western as every possible kind — vintage, revisionist, elegiac, feminist. What makes the movie interesting is the sincerity and intelligence with which it pursues that ambition, heroically unaware that the mission is doomed from the start.

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Grave and somber, Scott Cooper’s “Hostiles” opens with a scene that recalls John Ford’s “The Searchers.”

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But while the plot’s ham-fisted nature prevents us from caring about anyone but Blocker as more than the next character to die, it does present Bale a role of immense feeling.

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The Old West is clinically depressed in the grim Christian Bale oater Hostiles.

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Clearly, Cooper’s historical intentions are well founded and justified. No one would argue that point. We just wish the final product weren’t so problematic.

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Bale stars as an oppressive army officer seeking redemption in the Old West in Scott Cooper’s striking, if somewhat glib, take on the genre.

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Christian Bale and “Hostiles” brood their way through the American West.

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A ruthless killer of Native Americans is forced to confront his own prejudice in a Western that isn't nearly as progressive as it thinks.

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Christian Bale and Wes Studi star in Hostiles, a Western that's more depressing than enlightening.

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Scott Cooper’s film moves at a funereal pace, implicitly celebrating its sluggishness as a mark of integrity.

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