It’s not often that a film set in uncharted land feels truly uncharted the way The Settlers does.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 17, 2025

'The Settlers'... challenges what we are taught (and not taught) in history books. It is asking us to question said history and to acknowlege that all colonies were established through violence and genocide.

| Jun 4, 2024

Evokes the spirit of classic westerns, here infused with shades of Herzog and Jodorowsky’s filmmaking styles.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 18, 2024

Its relatively brief running time and patient pace combined with spare, subtle character work give it the feel of a parable or folk tale, even as it confronts the horrors of imperial subjugation with, at times, nearly unbearably frank realism.

| Apr 10, 2024

A queasy companion piece to Killers of the Flower Moon and The Zone of Interest; a harrowing revisionist western unpacks the moral compromises involved in the Birth of a Nation.

| Apr 7, 2024

The Settlers may require polishing in way of its performances, but is an example of a simply told yet richly-engaging story.

| Apr 3, 2024

The Settlers is a brutal, beautifully lensed look at some appalling events, featuring eccentric interludes and unpleasant twists in the tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 16, 2024

The writer-director and his cinematographer, Simone D’Arcangelo, evoke spaghetti westerns with wide-angle vistas of forbidding horizons. Odd moments of Quentin Tarantino-style playfulness add to the unease.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 24, 2024

The film is thoughtful and challenging, with a somewhat enigmatic structure. Atrocities and injustice litter the screen, both underscored and softened by the nuanced storytelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 13, 2024

The film might have worked both as a brutal Western and as history... But a desire to explore how the state covered up the slaughter of the Selk’nam people led [Gálvez] to abruptly switch genres -- from western to period drama -- and to adopt the clichés.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2024

At its strongest, though, The Settlers is unsettling indeed, not least thanks to the complementary performances of Arancibia, British 온라인카지노추천 regular Stanley, and Alfredo Castro...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2024

Lacks for a dramatic centre, but all the constituent parts are worthwhile.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2024

It’s a fierce, stark, almost primitive parable of cruelty and power.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2024

...a harrowing and unflinching dive into Chile’s colonial past, offering a piercing and fittingly uncomfortable critique. And all to the backdrop of DP Simone D’Arcangelo’s stunning John Ford-esque canvas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 5, 2024

As a narrative experience, The Settlers portrays with an epic Western lens the hidden side of previously featured civilizing advancements of the "white man" in cinema fiction. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2024

It is particularly gripping and hard to watch at times. I was blown away by this movie.

| Feb 1, 2024

... An honest exploration and a denunciation that's more artistic than moralistic about one of the many genocides that occurred in the south of the South. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 30, 2024

Swaggeringly sure of itself.

| Jan 28, 2024

It starts with a revisionist Western framework, including a literal cowboy, then turns the appeal of those tropes into a sick joke. The material is challenging and a little chilly, but the photography and performances make it compelling.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 23, 2024

The Settlers does not (particularly towards the end) place much emphasis on narrative drive. Still, its combination of the poetical and cruel leaves a lingering, distinctive impression.

| Jan 22, 2024