God's Country

Higgins and Newton leave us with a bad taste in our mouths, and that’s a good thing.

It's the dark and menacing, still and foreboding look of God's Country that will grab you first.

Julian Higgins’ excellent film constantly dangles redemption in front of our faces, begging us to imagine a better world, but ultimately delivers a stark reminder of how bitterly divided the country is.

...[Newton] gives a nuanced performance, expertly playing a woman on the edge who's barely holding herself together.

In its forlorn depiction of this vast, mountainous sweep, the ground is frozen and hard, and the people who live there are much the same.