Without becoming a version of John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn from “Rooster Cogburn” as a blustering and bickering mismatched pair, both Jones and Swank stay true to the hardscrabble roots needed for this story

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2024

The Homesman is a beautiful film that brings a rarely seen female (and feminist) perspective to the stories of the Old West. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2023

Muddier than the rough terrain it takes place on.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2021

Tommy Lee Jones is completely at home in the role of a cantankerous, frank, gruff, and grizzled cowboy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

A masterful, fully sensory experience filled with visual majesty, immersing us in the life and lives of the time.

| Dec 14, 2019

While it may afford us with a rare perspective of women's experiences in such a time and place, the film's narrative manages to appear misogynistic even as it appears to be developing an argument for agency.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 12, 2019

While maintaining a very obvious respect for the genre, the film is terribly current for several reasons. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 4, 2019

A defiant rejection of genre cliché with a resonance that is hard to shake.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

When it works, beautiful and bestial.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 31, 2019

With The Homesman, Jones has produced an original and cantankerously offbeat western which becomes increasingly beguiling as the road stretches on.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

It feels like a missed opportunity but there is still quite a bit to enjoy.

| Aug 27, 2018

The Homesman is a dark, complex story of gender issues and changing conventions on the frontier, and in an era that sees this genre fading, Jones has made a Western winner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2018

The film offers a landscape to match the emotional isolation; this land is as empty and lonely and unforgiving as it is lovely.

| Dec 16, 2017

Hilary Swank gives a particularly good central performance -- but the end result is a real curate's egg: too much at times, underdeveloped at others and marred by a huge plot twist that stops the story almost in its tracks.

| Oct 30, 2017

It's a film worth seeing before the crowd of Oscar contenders sweeps it out of the way for the holiday season.

| Oct 18, 2017

Clear-eyed but never discompassionate, The Homesman collects uneasy truths that are all too often left by the wayside of our nation's road to success.

| Aug 3, 2017

As a director, he's batted it out of the park. Twice. First with the eloquent and little-seen The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and now with the hardscrabble brilliance of The Homesman.

| Jun 28, 2017

A fair portion of Tommy Lee's life has been dedicated to telling stories about schlepping variously incapacitated or dead people long distances through the Wild West.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 13, 2016

If 'The Homesman' proves anything, it's that there's no movie that can't get a shot in the arm from a couple scenes of Tommy Lee Jones hollerin' and dancin'.

| Jun 7, 2016

If Jones wants to become a great director of a dying genre, he cannot simply hope to mimic what the masters did. He must instead explore the meaning of each image he creates.

| Original Score: C | Jun 6, 2016