SummaryWill Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Nicolas Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edge. Based ... Read More
Directed By:Gabe Polsky
Written By:Gabe Polsky, Liam Satre-Meloy, John Williams
Butcher's Crossing
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55
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Metascore
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55
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Sep 17, 2022
78
Polsky’s film digs into the rot in his characters’ psyches for a time but gradually climbs back out again, perhaps in an attempt to put their madness in a larger context social context. But mostly the final act of the film comes across like clunky, though well-earned, moralizing.
Sep 17, 2022
75
Butcher’s Crossing is a gorgeous travelog. It’s also a warning about what happens when people fail to tread lightly in the natural world, both as a consequence of nature and themselves.
Nov 8, 2023
67
Butcher’s Crossing is a decent western, with decent performances. It’s a film that delivers what’s expected. But for a story that could give Captain Ahab a run for his money, getting the expected is a bit disappointing.
Sep 17, 2022
60
Despite Nicolas Cage’s committed performance as the imposing, hardheaded leader of the expedition, this mournful yarn can’t quite transcend what’s familiar about its study of masculinity and the unforgiving spirit of the natural world.
Oct 19, 2023
50
It has a classical moral that would have made Aesop salute: Greed is not only corrupting, it can be self-defeating. Moreover, suspense lies both in wanting to know whether Miller’s quest will succeed and in what lessons might be learned. Though Miller’s actions drive the story, it is mainly an education for Will, the observer.
Sep 17, 2022
50
There’s some fun to be had in the Brando-like flickers of Cage’s performance, but Polsky’s film is too practical and logic-driven to indulge them.
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Jun 20, 2024
7
Surpreendentemente, destaco a fotografia e a atuaçãocontida do Nicolas Cage, que consegue passar a sensação de um homem obcecado. Não à toa o filme é muito bom naquela paisagem claustrofóbica. As passagens de tempo ficaram medianas, mas infelizmente o desfecho foi bem apressado, e quando o jovem interpretado por Fred Hechinger volta a ser o protagonista, o filme é tomado por um brutal desinteresse. Também poderia ser mais visceral na luta pela sobrevivência, mas tudo bem. Gosto como o filme é informativo, ao menos.
Nov 19, 2023
5
All things considered, Butcher's Crossing is a more than average effort that finds itself stuck in the mold of being another conventional Nicolas Cage movie, which ironically is what will provide the film with most of the audience's attention.While it's far from being an explicitly mediocre western, I can't say I liked it either.
