Meek's Cutoff

Meticulous and immersive, Meek’s Cutoff feels like history in three dimensions.

n the tough and sparely beautiful neo-Western Meek’s Cutoff, the uncompromisingly independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt uses landscape and natural sound to convey American restlessness...

...it's a slow burn that will richly reward the patient.

...a powerful new addition to the western genre.

...is the first film I've seen that evokes what must have been the reality of wagon trains to the West. They were grueling, dirty, thirsty, burning and freezing ordeals.