Those Who Wish Me Dead wants to be a neo-western with a heart, but its damaged heroes are straight from the cliche playbook.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2024

Within five minutes on-screen, Jolie reminds us why she’s a worldwide star. Suddenly you wonder why she’s been gone this long and how she can stay a bit longer.

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

Close to everyone involved has made better things.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 25, 2024

Tense white knuckle survival tale that is a total throwback to 90’s movies. It’s brutal, it’s visceral, & it’s just flat out awesome. Jolie is phenomenal but really the whole cast is.

| Jul 26, 2023

With broad strokes, very broad strokes, the screenplay sets up two teams to identify with: good people and bad people. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 14, 2023

Well staged and designed by the film's production designers and CGI computer wizards. You can positively feel the heat coming off them...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2022

“Those Who Wish Me Dead” features many of Sheridan’s trademarks: the neo-western vibe, a distinct regional (often rural) flavor, and a crime element that plays a critical part in the story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Yes, it certainly has been a while since she put her full array of talents to work. Nevertheless, Angelina Jolie means business here.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 1, 2022

While it is far from complex, well-cast roles and a knack for getting the small things right make it an enjoyable ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2022

Angelina Jolie is easily its strongest asset, playing the lead role of a traumatised smokejumper with a compassionate but bitter disposition, and theres some decent supporting work from the likes of Aiden Gillen and Jon Bernthal.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 28, 2022

What really matters here is the style, the thrills, the suspense, and Sheridan keeps the pace swift and the dramatic stakes high.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2021

In some ways, this might be Sheridan's weakest feature effort to date but it's also his most audience-friendly. 'Weakest' here is highly subjective. What might be 'weak' for Sheridan would equate to flat-out unattainable for 98% of all other filmmakers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 25, 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead could have benefitted from a little more tension and plausibility.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 20, 2021

an airport novel potboiler without the lurid thrills to keep it alive.

| Sep 14, 2021

Everything about Taylor Sheridan's Those Who Wish Me Dead feels like it was made in 1998 and they somehow forgot to release until 2021. I mean that as a compliment, I really do.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 2, 2021

This is a classic mid-budget, mid-quality, bonafide grown-up movie of the likes that have become increasingly rare ever since Marvel and DC began to dominate the big screen.

| Aug 21, 2021

This is paint-by-numbers moviemaking, with nothing but recycled components, a few wide brushstrokes passing for character complexity, and a plot that doesn't unfold as much as stagger forward with all the grace of a wino with a broken foot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 13, 2021

... contains all the hallmarks of a strong cinematic adventure by way of Shooter (2007) meets Dante's Peak (1997). Sadly, despite all this, the end result is a film whose electric end doesn't make up for the slog it takes to get there.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 13, 2021

highly-entertaining star vehicle hits the spot

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2021

Nicolas Hoult and Adian Gillen are truly threatening antagonists; Jon Bernthal and Medina Senghore are solidly compelling as a hard-to-kill spouses; and 15 year old Australian actor Finn Little is remarkable and best in show.

| Original Score: B | Jul 26, 2021