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Shepard's charisma has always reached back to an earlier time, so it's easy to accept him as a kind of pre-counterculture hero - Eastwood without the sneer - who aged into the era of tabloid scandal.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Don't Come Knocking expresses itself with deadpan humor, striking imagery, Western iconography and outbursts of strong emotions.Full Review

Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter

Filled with haunting visual panoramas. One of the most resonant is a nighttime shot of the Elko skyline dominated by a glittering casino. Evoking a once and future gold rush, it says more about the Old West and the New West than all of Mr. Shepard's elliptical, stagy dialogue can muster. Such powerful images make Don't Come Knocking well worth contemplating.Full Review

Stephen Holden
The New York Times

The finest scene in Don't Come Knocking is its quietest...The movie could have used a lot more of it.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

T Bone Burnett's soundtrack has the appropriate twang to give Wenders' Hopperesque tableaux a nice, filmic poetry. But as arresting as the images are, Shepard's clunky, soap-opera banter brings most everything, and everyone, crashing down to earth.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
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