Taylor Sheridan won acclaim for writing recent crime dramas
Sicario and Hell or High Water, which
afforded him the chance to direct his own script, Wind River. Beginning with a murder of a young woman on an isolated Indian
reservation, the story follows a tracker (Jeremy Renner), grieving his own
loss, as he helps a newbie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen), stalk the killer. As he
says, he “hunts predators.”
Olsen’s arc feels trimmed down in editing and pushed aside, but Renner delivers
maybe his best performance as a man quietly coping with haunting pain,
approaching with a stoic sense of perspective and philosophy that mask deep
wounds. Even with Sheridan’s Elmore Leonard-influenced loaded dialogue, Wind
River doesn’t quite hit the highs of his other works, but it’s a
strong directorial offering and a taut, cold mystery. There is also one of the most gratuitous rape scenes I've seen in quite a while, which is wholly unnecessary, jarringly shifts perspective, and derails the pace in a key moment. [Grade:
B]
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