This is strong and uniquely Australian storytelling at its very best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2020

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

strangely awkward in terms of film pacing

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2005

[T]he film emphasizes its fable qualities and sets the stage for its moral structure, which hinges on the merging of power and racism and the possibility of resistance.

| Jun 1, 2005

[D]rags you across acres of despair, a harsh landscape of the angry, terrified side of human nature...

| Mar 7, 2005

A high-minded film that at times verges on didacticism, The Tracker is redeemed by its adherence to a simple yet distinctive approach to storytelling and its uniformly strong acting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2005

De Heer doesn't want the violence to distract from the sadness and the substance of the movie's mythic history lesson. It's an inventive idea, one that probably doomed the movie's commercial prospects here in the States.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 4, 2005

An imposing film that tackles a serious theme with dignity and even audacity and that features production values of the highest quality.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2005

An engrossing study of race and history in Australia.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2005

The Tracker is the first significant movie to find its way into American theaters in 2005.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 24, 2005

Specially composed songs makes the study of men driven by primitive cruelty and ruthless justice something of a tone poem.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 19, 2005

Combines a classic movie-Western setting and narrative with a Heart of Darkness-like morality play.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2004

Interspersed with moments of great suspense, the tragic cat-and-mouse survival adventure overshadows the heavy-handed didacticism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 9, 2004

See the film mainly for the quiet and powerful work of Gulpilil in the title role.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2004

Too often, The Tracker explains when it would be better to suggest.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 26, 2004

An obvious, hot-coal piece of politically correct agitprop.

| Feb 7, 2004

The Tracker is one of those rare films that deserves to be called haunting.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 30, 2004

The Tracker has the punch of a good Western with a clean and direct script plus an adventurous use of songs and folk paintings.

Full Review | Jan 27, 2004

Has the same cinematic grandeur that people admire about John Ford's classic 'The Searchers' without that film's racist reflexes. It's mythmaking of a much higher caliber.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 20, 2004

The film's bleakly inevitable ending packs a wallop and its hauntingly desolate images linger long after the story is told.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2004