Fails to deliver on the rich storytelling the opening moments promise of an old school Hollywood epic.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 14, 2025

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| Original Score: 6/10 | May 13, 2025

On Swift Horses is the definition of a slow burn, with beautiful people and beautiful cinematography at the forefront.

| Original Score: B | May 12, 2025

On Swift Horses stirs emotions through it's pleasing visual language. While the allure was in discovery, many a lingering scene felt suspended as opposed to reinforcing inner musings.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2025

On Swift Horses simmers with emotion and untapped desire, hinting at deeper themes it never fully explores. A restrained film that lingers more than it lands.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2025

Everything on the surface is great (cast and production values), yet its flat story brings the whole film down. Beautiful, yet boring. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 5, 2025

...a clash of melodramatic expressiveness and measured realism in which both feel woefully compromised.

| May 3, 2025

Despite its complexity and ambition, On Swift Horses ultimately struggles to captivate, offering a cast of characters we’re given little reason to care about.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2025

It would have been a better movie if there was no dialogue, and Elordi just stood around half naked making out with people.

| May 1, 2025

Despite its accomplished cast, a novel pedigree, and some expert production values, it is one big dud, unfulfilling from start to end. It may look like a winner, but as compelling filmmaking, it utterly fails to win, place or show.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 1, 2025

Elordi, this era’s brooding heartthrob, makes a laughably transparent hero for Minahan’s thesis about the shock of homophobia.

| May 1, 2025

I found it engrossing, the appealing performers and handsome production milking another epoch’s nostalgia value while making it clear that the American Dream wasn’t accessible to everybody then. Has it ever been?

| May 1, 2025

With the sweep and sensuality of an epic 1950s romance like From Here to Eternity or Giant, this drama tells a love story that would never have made it to the silver screen in that era.

| Apr 30, 2025

The places seem lived in, and the people seem alive. There’s just something of a spark missing.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 29, 2025

The movie has noble intentions but flails in its execution and insular characters.

| Apr 28, 2025

Attempts to deliver a dramatic narrative about suppressed sexuality in 1950s America, but all the relationships feel stunted and artificial.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 28, 2025

This is a movie full of ideas, painting a complex, sprawling, yet astonishingly-intimate portrait of what it was like to be a queer person discovering your identity in mid-century America.

| Apr 28, 2025

On Swift Horses plays things a little too safe. Still, the strong performances and occasional sparks of chemistry from the stacked cast make it a mostly worthwhile watch.

| Apr 26, 2025

‘On Swift Horses’ might win, place, or show as a series.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 26, 2025

Jacob Elordi, Will Poulter, and Daisy Edgar-Jones portray two brothers and one's soon-to-be bride, all in an early '50s period piece, based on a novel and looking much better than it actually plays.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 26, 2025