Land Reviews
I expected something interesting and artistic. I got something that looks nice but is utterly predictable.
| Jun 23, 2021
[A]ll the dilemmas here - from bear attacks to food shortages - are entirely free of jeopardy and simply exist to provide our director-star with another chance to stage swoon-worthy photo ops by the wood-burner.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2021
Wright is sympathetic and believable, but we never truly get a sense of Edee or her desires outside the bounds of her loss.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 6, 2021
Its thematic intentions outweigh its technical shortcomings.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2021
Land will give you a craving to be in the great outdoors, maybe before it's even over.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2021
In her directorial debut, Robin Wright boldly strikes out for new territory, but the film is all too conventionally fenced in, lacking a narrative as compelling as its own dramatic Wyoming scenery.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2021
It's a welcome touch of light-heartedness and it confirms Bichir's ability to make you care what happens next, no matter how far-fetched.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2021
I wasn't really moved by this story, but I did respect it's granular, day-by-day storytelling.
| Mar 10, 2021
When, in the final moments of the film, when the last piece of this very lovely looking landscape puzzle is placed, I couldn't help but feel that the film was a missed opportunity for something more intriguing, profound.
| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 18, 2021
Landis an impressive debut film from Robin Wright, and a damn good movie
| Feb 15, 2021
Land is a perfectly enjoyable survivalist adventure. It also didn't leave much of an impression on me.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 13, 2021
We eventually learn certain details about Miguel's life and I'll say no more other than this: For those who believe everything happens for a reason, nobody in the world was better suited to find Edee than Miguel.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2021
Earnest, forthright and well acted.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2021
Wright is relaxed and almost meditative as she takes in the beauty of the horizon, and her simple directing captures the majesty of nature.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2021
Wright directs and stars in this simple but resonant story about a woman who finds personal salvation in a remote mountain cabin among a punishing, yet nourishing landscape.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2021
Robin Wright has a grueling role in "Land," and she has no one to blame since she cast herself.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2021
The film's beauty is undeniable, but it remains a pictorial, surface-level kind of beauty, one that glosses over the muck and sweat of its protagonist's various second-act breakthroughs...
| Feb 11, 2021
While "Land" sometimes leans too hard on conventional signifiers (the rootsy music score is predictably somber), it's a distinctive, strong picture.
| Feb 11, 2021
Yet by the time we reach Edee's big, cathartic disclosure in the last act, any sense of mystery or expectation has been wiped out by the film's blandly obvious trajectory.
| Original Score: C | Feb 11, 2021
There are corners of this quiet little film - less a plot-driven narrative than a two-person character study - that feel powerfully true, in ways that surprise.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2021