The Power of the Dog - Reviews

...Campion remains a master of sensory storytelling, delivering a scorching study of masculinity rooted in fear.

It’s a brawny, brooding drama about the wreckage caused by men, beautifully framed in muted neutral tones as the camera circles the ranch-house with a deliberate, stealthy tread.

...at its heart is a brooding Cumberbatch, offering one of the shrewdest performances of his career.

...a tricky, arresting neo-noir Western.

The weathered earth tones of Campion’s subdued colour scheme conceal a vivid and full-blooded emotional palette.

...a western gothic psychodrama: mysterious, malicious, with a lethal ending that creeps up behind you like a thief.

...Jane Campion's powerful and tragic adaptation of Thomas Savage's 1967 novel.

...a blistering, career-best performance from Benedict Cumberbatch.

A career-best Benedict Cumberbatch is equal parts Jack Twist and Daniel Plainview in a masterfully tense Western drama.

...a masterful western.

It is a film that exposes the cruelty of the West and the cruelty with which human beings tries to hide their true selves.