Director David Mackenzie's new film is inspired in ambition but lax in execution. Its edge is the inability to decide whether to bark or bite.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2024

Mackenzie is a forced to be reckoned with and I, for one, cannot wait to see where his career goes after seeing this film.

| Original Score: A | Aug 19, 2024

Almost a perfect movie that delivers fantastic performances

| Aug 7, 2023

We live in a grey world, which is likely to become cloudier. We want to see good people succeed, “come hell or high water.”

| Jun 22, 2023

A savory mix of a compelling narrative, several complex characters, and a handful of morally ambiguous situations.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 31, 2023

There is a pretty significant plot-hole in the final act that I can’t quite shake, but otherwise “Hell or High Water” sticks its landing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Mackenzie describes his film's characters with richness and depth, and each is afforded gradations by both the screenplay and performances.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Robbing banks was very 1800s; robbing by banks was very 2010s. Robbing robber banks in "Hell or Highwater" makes it a post-Occupy Neo-Western. Pine, Foster, and Bridges kill it. Apropos again in 2022, with rumors of account-freezing by banks circulating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2022

Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) wrote the perfect flick for Western-loving grownups.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 13, 2022

It's a neat inversion of the traditional Old West tale of robbers hitting up banks: In this one, the banks are the robbers.

| Dec 20, 2021

Hell or High Water offers a commentary on how harmful our profit-driven economy can be and to what lengths people will go to make sure their families have a secure financial future.

| Aug 26, 2021

It can work well in a film like True Grit, but here, in the absence of great material, it can seem like a surface-level attempt to get something out of a very one-note character.

| Apr 13, 2021

The lead duo are hugely unsympathetic, while their motives are slight and unfulfilling - making their high-stakes endeavors far less than suspenseful.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 5, 2020

Unquestionably one of the best films of 2016, Hell or High Water benefits greatly from an ensemble cast that acts like an ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020

Being a movie about police chasing thieves it has a disturbing tension that has hooked me from start to finish. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 27, 2020

It's a really good movie.

| May 6, 2020

I almost loved this movie.

| May 6, 2020

We need a palate cleanser to get us ready for Oscar season. Hell or High Water is just the thing. Filled with indelible characters, sneaky humor, and mournful intelligence, it's a film that deserves to be seen.

| Feb 18, 2020

Hell or High Water is appropriately elegiac for its subject matter, but Sheridan's script still offers many wry and humorous moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 7, 2019

A great example of what happens when all the components of a film come together in cooperative fashion.

| Original Score: A | Oct 21, 2019