The Claim Critic Reviews
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Stark, haunting, epic, and mournful, The Claim is a mountain of a film.Read the full review
Parsimonious with its plot, which is revealed on a need-to-know basis. At first, we're not even sure who is who; dialogue is half-heard, references are unclear, the townspeople know things we discover only gradually.Read the full review
Gives off the same vapor of impending tragedy—of a fate neither just nor unjust but ineffably, wrenchingly right.Read the full review
It overcomes some patchiness to turn into a rich emotional experience, ranging in degree from fire to ice.Read the full review
Draws an electric performance from Peter Mullan.Read the full review
A languorously muted, occasionally magnificent film.Read the full review
There's something almost too controlled, cerebral, and overdetermined about Winterbottom's Western notions.Read the full review
Sadly the film is so elusive, so distant, that it never seems more than half-alive.Read the full review
Nicely acted, wonderfully scenic but emotionally vapid.Read the full review
The actors seem as frozen as the landscape in this unsuccessful attempt at a grand and profound Western about the California Gold Rush.Read the full review
