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

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

Structured like an old-fashioned western, Felipe Gálvez Haberle’s debut is a turgid, ofttimes muddled mix of mismatched buddy film, morally-righteous screed, and quasi-religious nature-worship.

| Jan 19, 2024

[The] synopsis sounds like this is nothing more than a John Ford/Sergio Leone homage, but [The Settlers] corrals bigger ideas, with director/co-screenwriter Felipe Galvez Haberle’s debut exposing colonization’s inherent nastiness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 18, 2024

For all that this Cannes-winning film flirts with the grandeur of spaghetti Westerns, it’s rarely aiming for excitement or even drama in a conventional sense. But there’s integrity to its brutality.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 17, 2024

Torn between Tarantino-esque genre pastiche and stilted art-film seriousness, The Settlers is at once unsettling and tonally unsettled. The result is a muddled study of brutal history.

| Jan 12, 2024

The fact that "The Settlers" is shot with such piercing beauty intensifies its message.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2024

Gálvez’s work here is by turns blunt and subtle, and very assured. (It’s his feature debut.)

| Jan 11, 2024

Haberle may have had good intentions, but he lost his way.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 23, 2023

The film is a blistering laceration of the contradictions and hypocrisies of European racism.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 3, 2023

A brutal, chilling indictment of capitalist colonialism, The Settlers mixes shocking violence with acute apathy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2023

A heady, opaque western, slow to stir but vicious as a rattlesnake when it does.

| Jul 1, 2023

Gálvez, it’s clear, carefully considered the many ramifications of the subject matter he tackles here.

| Original Score: A | May 24, 2023

This is a film that shows that, as easy as it is to forget about the past, it’s easier still when it was never taught in the first place.

| Original Score: A- | May 22, 2023

The Settlers shows promise: it’s the work of a daring director intent on developing a distinctive and original voice.

| May 22, 2023

While its stylings are purposely retro, its aims are very much of the here and now.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 22, 2023