A chewy drama about family dynamics, sexuality and ego featuring two brothers on a ranch in Montana in 1925.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 23, 2024

The Power of the Dog is a film of uncanny beauty and subtle power, whose biggest asset is the curious interplay of contrasts of all kinds: physical power vs. powers of intellect, innocence vs. corruption, honesty vs. hypocrisy, and love vs. hate.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Not since Lady Macbeth (2016) has a film shifted power dynamics by exploring gender, class, and sexuality in each scene.

| Jun 10, 2024

Much has already been said about Jane Campion's western masterpiece, and for good reason. It is indeed truly great. Benedict Cumberbatch gives a career best performance.

| Feb 24, 2024

...as tense and evocative as any horror movie.

| Jul 28, 2023

An Incredible Movie with Incredible Performances

| Jul 26, 2023

The Power of the Dog is a thought-provoking, deep study of (toxic) masculinity surrounded by exceptional performances and truly stunning cinematography.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 25, 2023

When The Power of the Dog ends, there is an immense desire to immediately start it from the beginning to see the puzzle pieces that were laid out for the audience. To appreciate the movie in a new way, from a bird’s-eye view, knowing how it ends.

| Jul 25, 2023

‘The Power of the Dog’ is emotional and complex, as the movie shows the meaning of masculinity in the American Western, and how terrifying it is.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

This unique western has a slow pace that works because it is so intentional and essential to the direction of the plot.

| May 2, 2023

A master class in tension and survival tactics, The Power of the Dog is a film to soak up then meditate over.

| Mar 31, 2023

Campion鈥檚 new Western shares a visual vocabulary with Brokeback Mountain, but what looks like an unlikely love story turns out to be a tale of revenge.

| Mar 27, 2023

Each of them is a victim of patriarchal policing and patriarchal violence, and each of them perpetuates it, passing that diseased rope around like a noose.

| Mar 22, 2023

Benedict Cumberbatch gives his best performance to date as the soft speaking, intimidating rancher...

| Feb 14, 2023

The Power of the Dog will challenge its viewers. If that challenge is accepted, Jane Campion rewards cinephiles with a film that submerges you into its complex characters and themes and is one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 31, 2023

What鈥檚 so invigorating about this dynamic is that it avoids the easy theory that the homophobe is just gay himself. Instead, The Power of the Dog casually observes that anyone can be both a monster and a victim.

| Nov 2, 2022

The Power of the Dog explores how societal oppression has the unintended consequence of turning marginalized into oppressors with striking results and a rousing visual narrative.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2022

Campion’s work is so well-calibrated to the point where the sickening end of one character’s arc feels inevitable, while the hopeful conclusion for others feels tainted with an acidic air despite the promise of a better future.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 22, 2022

Jane Campion's first film in over a decade is a Western in which the only terse standoff involves its opponents trading musical notes instead of gunfire and the central cowboy duel is one that sees him wrestle with his conflicting emotions.

| Aug 27, 2022

With The Power of the Dog, Campion is at the height of her skills trotting into her latest mesmerising musing on strength, desire and isolation.

| Aug 13, 2022