Meek’s Cutoff shows that are still some creative films that can surface from the U.S. and only proves the fact that Kelly Reichardt is one of the most important filmmakers of our generation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 29, 2024

Reichardt is less interested in recreation than exploring how gender, race and relationships influence power dynamics in a vacuum, a wasteland, where survival should be the only goal. The events in the film feel more like a reimagining of untold history

| Jun 9, 2024

The end of this film is one of my favorites in all cinema, showing that filmmakers do not owe audiences a tidy bow at the end of their films.

| Feb 13, 2024

Reichardt finds cracks in foundational American imagery by calling attention to its roots in shaky ground.

| Mar 3, 2023

Reichardt certainly doesn’t romanticize the American frontier life, instead creating one of the most genuine portrayals of the hardships and struggles that faced the settlers in the new territory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2022

A type of East not from daydreams, but rather a nightmare. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 9, 2022

A haunting film about people finally resigning themselves to the chaos of the universe.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Slowly, our own exhaustion and concern grow with the travelers' weariness. With deft acting and skillful pacing, you can feel the heat and dryness in their throats.

| Feb 25, 2021

This a slow, artistic, revisionistic take on the Western film so it'll certainly be a good film to watch and absorb over the course of a long hot summer's afternoon.

| Feb 2, 2021

Meek's Cutoff could be the most understated, and historically accurate, horror film in history. It's both the scariest and most poetic film of the year.

| Jan 17, 2020

[T]his story is one in which the audience will become so invested in the unvarnished struggle, the hardship... that one can't help but walk away from the theatre with a new sense of understanding and appreciation for America's history.

| Nov 16, 2019

[Director Kelly] Reichardt, who previously directed Williams in Wendy and Lucy, shows us with great subtlety the physical and emotional drama here, one that's properly underplayed, given the strictures of the time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2019

Certainly, the film is grim in many ways, but there is also great, almost astonishing, beauty. . .

| Aug 15, 2017

It's a severe life in a hostile world, observed with such delicate detail that the film achieves a grace and poetry. But it is also a primal piece of filmmaking, wrought from dirt and rock and calico, illuminated by natural light and campfire.

| May 22, 2016

I was hypnotized from the opening sequence.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Meek's Cutoff is a thoughtful, and intimate narrative that is beautifully shot and has outstanding direction.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 11, 2013

Reichardt's film is - to put it simply - a masterpiece.

| Sep 15, 2013

presented people who were so devoid of personality, humor and interest that I didn't care if any of them made it out alive

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2013

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 26, 2013

The film is both evocative and provocative; atmospherically and conceptually, respectively.

| Original Score: 80/100 | Jul 21, 2012