The Revenant
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In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
What critics thought
The Revenant draws broadly favorable notices anchored by near-universal admiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's physically extreme performance, but the film itself proved more contentious — critics split over whether Iñárritu's punishing, slow-burn aesthetic is visionary or merely self-important, and whether its emotional core matches the spectacle of its cinematography.
“a virtuoso performance, thrilling in its brute force and silent eloquence”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“[b]leak as hell but considerably more beautiful”
David Edelstein·Vulture
“an imposing vision... but also an inflated and emotionally stunted one”
Justin Chang·Variety
“pictorial ornament[s] to Alejandro G. Iñárritu's bland theatrical stagings”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“Inarritu may have fashioned The Revenant as the ultimate endurance test, but as Glass, DiCaprio simply endures. He gives the movie a beating heart, offering it up, figuratively speaking, alive and bloody on a platter.”
Stephanie Zacharek·Time
Accolades
Genres
Action, Drama, Western
Cast & Crew
Alejandro G. IñárrituDirector
Leonardo DiCaprioHugh Glass
Tom HardyJohn Fitzgerald
Domhnall GleesonCaptain Andrew Henry
Will PoulterJim Bridger
Forrest GoodluckHawk
Duane HowardElk Dog
Arthur RedcloudHikuc
Melaw Nakehk'oPowaqa
Grace DoveHugh Glass' Wife
Lukas HaasJones
Paul AndersonAnderson
Kristoffer JonerMurphy
Ryuichi SakamotoComposer
Mark L. SmithWriter
Emmanuel LubezkiCinematographyThe Revenant
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
What critics thought
The Revenant draws broadly favorable notices anchored by near-universal admiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's physically extreme performance, but the film itself proved more contentious — critics split over whether Iñárritu's punishing, slow-burn aesthetic is visionary or merely self-important, and whether its emotional core matches the spectacle of its cinematography.
“a virtuoso performance, thrilling in its brute force and silent eloquence”
Peter Travers·Rolling Stone
“[b]leak as hell but considerably more beautiful”
David Edelstein·Vulture
“an imposing vision... but also an inflated and emotionally stunted one”
Justin Chang·Variety
“pictorial ornament[s] to Alejandro G. Iñárritu's bland theatrical stagings”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“Inarritu may have fashioned The Revenant as the ultimate endurance test, but as Glass, DiCaprio simply endures. He gives the movie a beating heart, offering it up, figuratively speaking, alive and bloody on a platter.”
Stephanie Zacharek·Time
Accolades
Genres
Action, Drama, Western
Cast & Crew
Alejandro G. IñárrituDirectorLeonardo DiCaprioHugh GlassTom HardyJohn FitzgeraldDomhnall GleesonCaptain Andrew HenryWill PoulterJim BridgerForrest GoodluckHawkDuane HowardElk DogArthur RedcloudHikucMelaw Nakehk'oPowaqaGrace DoveHugh Glass' WifeLukas HaasJonesPaul AndersonAndersonKristoffer JonerMurphyRyuichi SakamotoComposerMark L. SmithWriterEmmanuel LubezkiCinematographyStream
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