The movie is a sincere work, with some remarkable performances, that centrally features Australia's parched, barren desert landscape.

| Feb 21, 2021

From a beautiful, lyrical opening scene simply involving a dark bubbling pot and evocative audio to its devastating denouement, Warwick Thornton's Aussie western is a triumph of taut storytelling and visual flair.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2020

The fourth feature by Australian filmmaker Thornton is not just the surprise of the week. It can even be the year, even though it has been released in our country with more than a year of delay. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 14, 2019

Sweet Country is a powerful drama boasting strong performances, an engrossing story, and a viewing experience not easily shaken off.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 23, 2019

Not only is Sweet Country a superb genre film, its focus on Aboriginal lives... makes it more than a little revolutionary. Most US Westerns fail at their indigenous representation, and this Aussie film is here to show them how it's done.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2019

A piece of cinema that will both enrage and inspire you, Sweet Country is a true triumph of cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5.5 | Jan 30, 2019

Indigenous actor Hamilton Morris is quietly magnificent in his first screen role.

| Jan 5, 2019

Uncomfortable to watch, the film works as a distinguished, forceful statement on integrity, authority, and bigotry and is a strong entry for the genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 21, 2018

Warwick Thornton's outback morality tale, Sweet Country, combines exquisite visuals of Australian landscapes with a script that dabbles as much in mythical justice as deeply specific ideas of what this country is made of.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 14, 2018

Sweet Country is undeniably a "feel bad" movie, but that shouldn't put you off seeking it out.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 12, 2018

Sexual and physical violence are symptoms of racial hierarchy and both are impressed upon Sam's family.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 1, 2018

Their recognition of personal errors resonates by showing progress is possible if we're strong enough to embrace empathy over discord.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 28, 2018

Though it's set in frontier days in the 1920s, hate-filled cruelty and racism persist still and Sweet Country is a powerful indictment of them. It's searing, sensational cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 27, 2018

Sweet Country is a real surprise. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 26, 2018

The Australian western is not a gentle sort... Sweet Country, directed with fierce confidence by Warwick Thornton, is a sturdy addition to the canon.

| Aug 20, 2018

A very good film, that as we noted is more than a western. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 17, 2018

Warwick Thornton's physical work is brutal. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2018

A story of racism and violence, poetic, serene and full of fury. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 22, 2018

Uncompromising, deliberate, and eerily beautiful, director Warwick Thornton's rugged Australian Western puts a new spin on an old story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2018

Altogether, Thornton's film is a moody and dark meditation -- a grim portrait of an Old West that will be both familiar and foreign to American audiences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 27, 2018