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Director John Lee Hancock doesn't seem to have the guts to go the full distance and pulls his punches every time. We get gloss instead of grit.

Chastain is its saving grace.

Rosamund Pike is a revelation as the woman who can be everything you want her to be - and, especially, what you definitely don't want her to be.

The title suggests derring-do, when No Country For Grumpy Old Men would better set the mood.

As usual with big budget sci-fi movies, what is missing are characters that live and breathe.

The performances are exquisite.

The setup may call to mind other films about women starting life anew in beautiful exotic locales — let’s say Tuscany for example. However, Land puts forth a quieter and darker tone.

This is a grim, austere story of the pressure cooker of frustration, rage and fear that results when the patriarchy squeezes just as tight as the corsets of the time.

This is formula fare. Nothing wrong with that when it's given serious treatment.

Cox delivers the best onscreen monologue seen outside of a Shakespeare adaptation for years.

The debuting Reitman handles the film with inventive style and confident assurance.

Rather too rarefied to begin with, Archer’s profound story soon shapes up into a reasonably gripping potboiler, beautifully shot and acutely tense.