The Mustang is a unique character-driven film that is headlined by a jaw-dropping performance by Matthias Schoenaerts.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 18, 2022

Man and horse soften each other, but not with expected cliches, making The Mustang ride well as a movie and for Nevada.

| Jul 23, 2021

The Mustang may or may not reflect the way the world is, but it absolutely feels real.

| Feb 8, 2021

It's an extraordinarily gripping film as it delves into social issues and humanity, cutting into your emotional foundation to see the world in a different light.

| Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Nov 14, 2020

A poetic and apolitical character study that thrives thanks to its leading performance.

| Oct 1, 2020

Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre makes her directorial debut in this French/Belgian flick about a convict who joins Bruce Dern's prison rehab program training wild mustangs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2020

Clermont-Tonnerre [pays] close attention to cultural influences and [toys] with -- but [refuses] to commit to -- symbols of American masculinity.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 27, 2020

This is a beautifully shot, exquisitely realized work that marks an early entry as one of the best films of the year so far.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2020

The film's ending is more bittersweet than feel-good. But Roland is left with a germ of hope that feels earned.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2020

Superb acting and tight directing elevate this film about an inmate training a wild mustang.

| Mar 20, 2020

The Mustang, against all odds, moved me. It's not the most dense movie, nor is it the most interesting, but it's short, honest, and simple to the point of feeling pure.

| Mar 18, 2020

French filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, who also co-wrote, impresses with a feature directorial debut that displays an understanding of film as both craft and poetry. She also displays a reverence and hope for flawed humanity...

| Feb 11, 2020

Where we are left at the end feels like a culmination of a number of clunky beats that disrupt otherwise stellar work done both in-front of and behind the camera.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 6, 2020

[Their] connection is so wondrous and quietly powerful... This is lovely.

| Sep 23, 2019

Matthias Schoenaerts is remarkable in soulful drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2019

Terse and elegiac at best, The Mustang is a dude Western from the Horse Whisperer school.

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

For all the drugs and violence, at heart it's a straightforward yarn about a boy and his horse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2019

With both man and horse suffering from anger-management problems, it's a well acted if not always subtle affair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2019

As Schoenaerts demonstrated with his pin-eyed rage in Bullhead, he's a physically gifted actor who can convey as much with stillness and silence as he can with pages full of dialogue.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2019

[W]hat The Mustang has in spades is sincerity, and a director good enough to wring the beauty out of a necessarily grim tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2019