Susanna White and Jessica Chastain's Woman Walks Ahead is well-meaning but bland, another white savior among natives story.

| Jul 6, 2018

As a New York widow who travels to South Dakota in 1889 to paint Sitting Bull, the stellar Jessica Chastain can't save this Hollywoodized frontier biopic from grave historical inaccuracy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 2, 2018

Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2018

Weldon and Sitting Bull deserve better. So do we.

| Jun 29, 2018

Woman Walks Ahead is too often one step behind in making us care.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2018

The good intentions it carries out to the plains don't make up for the tentative falseness at its center, a hero who could herself benefit from a portraitist's clear vision.

| Jun 28, 2018

It's all ridiculously romanticized and self-serving. But the performances are so good and Michael Eley's vistas, shimmeringly shot in New Mexico, are so stunning, it feels churlish to resist

| Jun 28, 2018

But if it doesn't exactly feel revelatory or deeply explored as a historical document, it's still an intriguing story, capably told.

| Original Score: B | Jun 27, 2018

As a character, Catherine Weldon suffers the same fate as Sitting Bull, having been reduced to a signifier of the filmmakers' retroactive political correctness.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 25, 2018

Steven Knight's script veers dangerously close to white-savior territory, but the complexity of the native characters is commendable, and the performances are first-rate.

| Apr 19, 2018

A listless but lustrously shot biopic...

| Original Score: C- | Sep 22, 2017

Woman Walks Ahead remains stagnant as a politically correct but enervating historical drama.

| Sep 20, 2017

Despite the estimable talent on hand both behind and in front of the camera, the story never comes to convincing life and doesn't, in the end, have anywhere particularly surprising or interesting to go.

| Sep 18, 2017

As white savior stories go, it's still progress to find one that lives up to such a feminist title as this.

| Sep 11, 2017

Woman Walks Ahead is a solidly crafted and well shot, if basically unchallenging film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2017