Ultimately, The Revenant suggests no deeper or more nuanced truths than a medieval morality play.

| Sep 21, 2017

Iñárritu continues move away from his earlier work, which I still prefer, to bring a more Hollywood-digestible tale like this one that blends themes of spirituality, primal instinct and humanity.

| Original Score: A | Sep 1, 2017

As a feat of filmmaking chutzpah, it's one of 2015's most intriguing offerings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2016

[A] grueling but engrossing tale of survival and revenge in the American frontier.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2016

Making 'The Revenant' was an ordeal, you see, in which people froze and suffered and came to blows, and they'd like to pass the ordeal on to you, the viewer.

| Apr 27, 2016

As it is, you're bound to be impressed by what the actors went through, but you won't be so bothered about the characters they play.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2016

The physicality of DiCaprio's performance is certainly impressive, as is the technical effort that clearly went into the making of the film. But as a whole, the movie arcs toward tedium; we become less involved in Glass' ordeal as he goes on.

| Feb 2, 2016

This is a frontier story made as no other has been before. It's immense.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 18, 2016

Leonardo DiCaprio delivers a barnstorming performance as the embattled Glass, whose quest for survival takes him on a Herzogian odyssey to the very borders of life and death.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 17, 2016

It is overwhelming but unmoving, a rush of brute force that leaves the nagging afterthought, "Is that all there is?"

| Jan 15, 2016

Frontier epic takes cine-suffering to new levels of agony and - most importantly - veracity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 15, 2016

I admired its ambition, but also found it an endurance test. I was longing for it to be over, and so relieved when it was.

| Jan 14, 2016

The locations and cinematography are wow-inducing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2016

Iñárritu has constructed an epic fable of uncommon grace and resonance--a film that, like its hero, achieves a kind of transcendence.

| Jan 9, 2016

As an action movie with a grisly exploitation edge, The Revenant could have been a triumph. But Inarritu can't seem to stop lunging after greatness: some of his symbolic touches reach new heights of kitsch.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 8, 2016

The film, never less than visually magnificent, is almost entirely pointless: a shaggy-bear story at best.

| Jan 8, 2016

The journey is long and painstaking, the better to give you a sense of just what is being opposed to what.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2016

DiCaprio is called on to depict the man's desperation, grief and searing anger almost entirely through his eyes and he does it with remarkable depth, turning Glass's endurance into a steadfastness both physical and emotional.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 8, 2016

How do you decide who is in charge and what to do? The film's most fascinating moments are the ones where we see characters across the continuum on those questions.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 7, 2016

Award-time musings for DiCaprio notwithstanding, 'The Revenant' remains adrift in the snow...

| Original Score: 2.3/4 | Jan 7, 2016