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

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

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

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

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 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

An engrossing drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2004

De Heer leaves no stone unturned in going for the obvious.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 16, 2004

A stark moral fable told in the language of the sort of western that Hollywood has stopped making, this Australian film could be viewed as a companion piece to Rabbit-Proof Fence.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2004

A decent little exercise in nativist outrage.

Full Review | Jan 13, 2004

[Gulpilil] is a commanding screen presence, and his character's abundant humanism makes him the film's moral compass.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2003