
Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, This movie revolves around the colorfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who's being pursued across one thousand miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco, California by the notorious assassins Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix). Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on Patrick DeWitt's novel, This movie revolves around the colorfully named gold prospector Hermann Kermit Warm (Riz Ahmed), who's being pursued across one thousand miles of 1850s Oregon desert to San Francisco, California by the notorious assassins Eli Sisters (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix). Except Eli is having a personal crisis and beginning to doubt the longevity of his chosen career. And Hermann might have a better offer.
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| Eugene Weekly (OR)Rick LevinThe film has action and lots of loud gunplay, but Audiard's direction tends to tease out the story's quieter moments, favoring characterization and dialogue. |
| Lainey GossipSarah MarrsA revisionist Western road movie comedy with a heaping side of existential drama and great performances. |
| Ben Film TalkBen RolphIt's a warped dream of the Western that successfully subverts and delivers a ravishingly beautiful spectacle. |
| Georgia StraightJanet SmithIt's a winding but awesomely entertaining ride, even for western fans who've ridden them thar hills many times before. |
| San Francisco ExaminerAnita KatzWhile Phoenix delivers the reckless and playful goods as Charlie, the movie is Reilly's. His lead character is terrifically dangerous, forlorn and funny. The two actors sizzle together. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe cast is strong, though, and demonstrates yet again how good acting can carry audiences through movies that otherwise would not be worth the trip. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdIt’s something of a hangout Western, too, and its pleasures mostly come down to the company we get to keep with the characters and the actors easing into their eccentricities. |
| CinegarageErick EstradaAudiard shows a series of situation that pulls us out of the conventional western and places us near a light comedy or an intense drama about a search. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| MoviejawnRosalie Kicks"Drunken saloon fights, spider bites, brothels and a tutorial on teeth brushing... this flick has it all." |
| Butaca AnchaErick OrtizThe Sisters Brothers might have some of the conventions of a typical western, but it surpasses them with a surprising touch of warmth and humanity. [Full Review in Spanish] |