The Proposition (2006) Critic Reviews

A movie you cannot turn away from; it is so pitiless and uncompromising, so filled with pathos and disregarded innocence, that it is a record of those things we pray to be delivered from.Read the full review

A pitiless yet elegiac Australian Western as caked with beauty as it is with blood.Read the full review

A near-masterpiece of mood and menace, and one that deserves to be seen on the largest screen possible.Read the full review

A fascinating, mythological western.Read the full review

A visionary tale -- bleak but visionary all the same -- of a fragile civilizing impulse crushed by family loyalty and a lust for revenge in the vast Outback of the late 19th century.Read the full review

Hillcoat and Cave have here found their most fertile ground yet for allegory-rich examinations of life and death in remote, pressure-cooker environments.Read the full review

A spellbinding Australian Western.Read the full review

The Australian director John Hillcoat makes an audacious, unsettling American feature debut with The Proposition, a revisionist western that brings its own brand of sanguinary honesty to the genre.Read the full review

The cast of The Proposition is reason enough to see the film.Read the full review