The Hunter unfolds at a perfect pace and rests on a really strong script.

| Mar 31, 2020

Although there are morsels to savour in Daniel Nettheim's nature drama, particularly the location and the cinematography that takes advantage of it, the film never really comes together into a satisfying or cohesive whole.

| Feb 13, 2020

It gets bogged down in a saccharine subplot that ultimately derails the entire affair.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 8, 2019

I loved the pace and performances here, and while by no means flawless, I found The Hunter a good watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 23, 2019

The Hunter builds hair-trigger suspense in a breathtaking, febrile landscape. All the fine details of tracking and trapping are precisely portrayed.

| Jul 29, 2019

The ominous and foreboding terrain of Tasmania proves to be the film's greatest asset in an otherwise unsurprising and unchallenging film about a perennially explored subject.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2019

This might not be the typical hitman movie -- there's a dose of environmental politics thrown in -- but its tropes are stock. What sets it apart, of course, is Dafoe.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 4, 2019

The Hunter is a powerful evocation of an oppressive state, of a people who are as likely to suffer at the hands of their fellow countrymen than from any outside force. A superb political drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Charts no new territory, but Dafoe, the Tasmanian wilderness, and the elusive tiger keep your interest.

| Aug 30, 2018

Nettheim's inaugural outing is no generic thriller (despite its promotion), but instead a thoughtful exploration of masculinity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2018

Pitts's striking visual control ensures that the divide between institutionalized injustice and personal revenge remains volatile, thorny terrain.

| Jan 9, 2018

It's a character study, for the most part, allowing the complications and relationships to puncture the narrative only when they have finally penetrated the man.

| Apr 9, 2016

The Hunter is a film of surprising scope and intimacy.

| Aug 11, 2014

It is an atmospheric and richly rewarding film that glides along at a pace akin to that of the small country local within which it's set.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 17, 2013

Slow-moving but graceful, this character study is engaging and insightful.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 30, 2013

Its mostly observant temper keeps us from being greatly moved, but it holds us with its acute, almost laboratory dissection of its people's beings.

| Jun 19, 2013

The Hunter delivers a quiet and somewhat meandering story that wallows in self-importance and social agenda.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 16, 2013

Well-crafted and finely acted adventure story that held my interest throughout.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 1, 2012

This powerful drama is strongly anchored by Willem Dafoe's nuanced performance as a hard loner who is softened by a vulnerable family who finds a place in his heart.

| Original Score: B | Nov 27, 2012

By the time Dafoe tracks down the elusive CGI'd thylacine, my eyelids had washed over with a glaze of numbness. The big winner here, Tasmania's tourist board.

| Original Score: D+ | Oct 22, 2012