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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: VERY GOOD (cg) "This slyly transcendental documentary consists of long, mostly wordless takes of sheep, cowboys, and the divine Montana mountains they wander through for 200 miles.... austere enough to make Frederick Wiseman's films look like Jersey Shore episodes, yet it has its own suspense..." (Read the full review...) 87 words, 01/22/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...the first essential movie of this young year... often astonishingly beautiful... the absence of narration proves very freeing... a graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life, there is little here that is objective and much that is magnificent." (Read the full review...) 932 words, 01/06/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Impatient viewers may chafe at the fact that there's little dialogue or explanation, and no attempt to boost the drama. And really, this intimate record is as much an anthropological study as a traditional documentary." (Read the full review...) 132 words, 01/08/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary... done with the kind of restraint that is both the ideal complement to a grand physical setting and a fitting tribute to this disappearing way of life." (Read the full review...) 643 words, 03/26/10 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "The filmmakers wisely avoid the temptation to be cutesy (remember that penguin movie?) and sentimental. [Lucien] Castaing-Taylor's lensing -- from sheep staring into a camera to panoramic views of the gorgeous landscape -- is pleasing to the eye." (Read the full review...) 186 words, 01/06/10 Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "A throwback to salvage ethnography... offers ravishing scenery, studious detail and understated design." (Read the full review...) 274 words, 06/25/10 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...captures the arduousness and the awe (not awww) of a vanishing way of life.... also a fascinating document of various types of intimacy, both inter- and intra-species.... reminds us of the stupefying magnificence of its setting -- beautiful for spacious skies and mountain majesties -- while never letting us forget its formidable perils..." (Read the full review...) 664 words, 01/06/10 Jason Anderson, Toronto Star: OUTSTANDING (cg) "If there's anything we can learn from the creatures here, it's that any day in which you don't get stripped of your coat or eaten by a bear is probably a good one." (Read the full review...) 515 words, 07/16/10 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: VERY GOOD (cg) "...an anthropological marvel and an animal-drive movie that belongs beside the classics of the genre - 'Red River' and 'Lonesome Dove.' " (Read the full review...) 438 words, 07/16/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The animals are, well, sheep, eating, nursing and following along the sometimes not so clear trail. Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are only slightly interested in the experience of the herders... 'Sweetgrass' is a hypnotically gorgeous thing, though." (Read the full review...) 158 words, 07/15/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a gorgeous and, believe it or not, riveting documentary... about sheep." (Read the full review...) 484 words, 05/21/10 Peter Hartlaub, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: OUTSTANDING (cg) "You'll be hearing bleating in your sleep for days, which is more pleasant than it sounds." (Read the full review...) 218 words, 06/11/10 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...tells its story in the visual equivalent of Cormac McCarthy's muscular, stripped-down prose. With its intimate attention to detail and majestic Big Sky vistas, the film balances between anthropology and art." (Read the full review...) 462 words, 04/16/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a patient, contemplative anthropological experience that transports the viewer to what is likely unfamiliar terrain.... unlike anything you'll see in a theater this year. It bravely strays from the flock." (Read the full review...) 501 words, 04/23/10 Ty Burr, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a meditative and intensely beautiful documentary about the last sheep run in Big Timber, Mont.... slow, profoundly observant, in tune with the larger cycles of nature." (Read the full review...) 674 words, 04/02/10 Ted Fry, Seattle Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an unusual observational documentary that follows cowboys herding sheep into the mountains of Montana on their final drive, is a spectacular and visceral experience... In the pantheon of films about cowboys and sheep, it's a tossup whether 'Brokeback Mountain' or 'Sweetgrass' is the more beautiful and poignant." (Read the full review...) 424 words, 03/26/10 Stan Hall, Portland Oregonian: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a gorgeous, epic-sized but peaceful and intimate tribute to a rapidly disappearing way of life. It's stark, matter-of-fact and as fine a work of anthropology as it is art." (Read the full review...) 92 words, 04/09/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "Instead of rounding up information, this documentary about an arduous sheep drive across Montana is driven by the beauty of the landscape.... artful images frame the sheep and their keepers within the larger natural order." (Read the full review...) 240 words, 06/18/10
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: VERY GOOD "...captures the arduousness and the awe (not awww) of a vanishing way of life.... also a fascinating document of various types of intimacy, both inter- and intra-species.... reminds us of the stupefying magnificence of its setting -- beautiful for spacious skies and mountain majesties -- while never letting us forget its formidable perils..." (Read the full review...) 664 words, 01/06/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) " 'Sweetgrass' is not only living experience -- it's an artifact of a dying lifestyle. Perhaps also of an endangered kind of filmmaking, one that embraces reality, that requires viewers to watch and listen and not just consume." (Read the full review...) 600 words, 04/01/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a catalog of observations about the primal relationship between man and beast, and the still-daunting challenges of the Western landscape.... about the majesty of the landscape and the interplay between these animals, their keepers, and the dictates of nature itself. It's a slice of dying life." (Read the full review...) 341 words, 01/07/10 Susan G. Cole, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The animals are, well, sheep, eating, nursing and following along the sometimes not so clear trail. Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are only slightly interested in the experience of the herders... 'Sweetgrass' is a hypnotically gorgeous thing, though." (Read the full review...) 158 words, 07/15/10
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...the first essential movie of this young year... often astonishingly beautiful... the absence of narration proves very freeing... a graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life, there is little here that is objective and much that is magnificent." (Read the full review...) 932 words, 01/06/10 Anthony Lane, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "We already know that farmers don't have a sniff of sentimentality, but it's still bracing to see the sheep breeders in this movie... to glimpse the rhythm that has, for more than a century, governed these hard, skillful, good-humored American lives, and which has itself been cut short." (Read the full review...) 342 words, 01/04/10 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary... done with the kind of restraint that is both the ideal complement to a grand physical setting and a fitting tribute to this disappearing way of life." (Read the full review...) 643 words, 03/26/10
Ronnie Scheib, Daily Variety: OUTSTANDING "...offers a one-of-a-kind experience. Its visuals range from sheep-level closeups to soaring overviews, while its complex source soundtrack seamlessly melds human and ovine contributions. At once epic-scale and earthbound..." (Read the full review...) 436 words, 09/26/09 Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter: MODERATE "...an intriguing but overly demanding portrait of rural Montana... The directors succeed all too well in evoking the sedentary, unhurried pace of country life: Many shots and sequences drag unproductively and repetitively, on and on." (Read the full review...) 299 words, 02/17/09 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...an unexpectedly intoxicating documentary... done with the kind of restraint that is both the ideal complement to a grand physical setting and a fitting tribute to this disappearing way of life." (Read the full review...) 643 words, 03/26/10 Manohla Dargis, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...the first essential movie of this young year... often astonishingly beautiful... the absence of narration proves very freeing... a graceful and often moving meditation on a disappearing way of life, there is little here that is objective and much that is magnificent." (Read the full review...) 932 words, 01/06/10
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