People are hailing this as a masterpiece, but I'm more inclined to say, a bit grudgingly, that it's merely very good. Unremittingly tense and grimly existential, and at the same time a careful study of character and evil and a thorny-edged love letter to the American Western, graced by performances which invoke and undermine archetypes in a way that one doesn't notice at all while watching, it's impressive but just not a film that I can love.
(w/ Wei and Julian F)
