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  Review by Will Menaker ★★★½ 3

  If you like Tim Blake Nelson talking in a laconic old tymey way and Stephen Dorff as a villain, then run, don't walk to see this! The kind of Western they just don't make anymore!

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  Review by 𝕺𝖒𝖆𝖗 ★★★½

  It’s nice to watch a movie that’s not trying to melt my brain or give me a heart attack for a change. Old Henry is just telling a fine western story in the simplest way possible. With the help of its great cast, likable characters and beautiful dialogue, it manages to pull it off.

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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★½ 1

  OLD HENRY is my kind of western: a brutal slice of throwback genre entertainment told with unforgiving gravitas. The under appreciated Tim Blake Nelson receives a showcase role worthy of his talents while Stephen Dorff sets himself up as a menacing & nasty villain. Polished & badass filmmaking.

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  Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★½ 7

  In many western reviews I keep saying the genre “died” or became “incapacitated” for a time and that its absence still exists today, yet I keep finding incredibly well made westerns hidden among the tumbleweeds; once smothered in the trail dust of the modern-day audience that latches interest onto the next trendy genre. I’m beginning to believe the genre has never died or even waned in its general quality (undoubtedly in quantity), and has always had a knack for being entertaining while having something good to say. Old Henry is one of the finest films of the year and then some.

  Casting itself as a long shadow over legacy and staking land claims upon the Westward expansion, director and writer…

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  Review by TheFreshBeef ★★★★ 1

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★★ 3

  ”You have no idea the hell storm you fixing’ to let loose”

  Please excuse me as I attempt to speechify the inner workings of my halfwit canine mind, but Tim Blake Nelson’s turn of the century performance is so damn authentic it should be put on permanent display in the National Museum of Natural History.

  ”Kiss my ass, you long-winded son of bitch”

  
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  Review by More_Badass ★★★★ 1

  Old Henry is that modern Western rarity: the lean no-nonsense throwback with no pretensions beyond wanting to play in the genre’s sandbox and execute those familiar tropes with its own flair. Economically plotted and skillfully paced, this is a small-scale frontier pressure-cooker: father, son, isolated Oklahoma farm, satchel of cash, gunshot rider, a menacingly smarmy Stephen Dorff and his posse close behind. Director/writer Potsy Ponciroli lights the fuse early and delights in the winding tension and spurts of conflict that follow. The small scale being a COVID limitation becomes obvious in hindsight but never intrudes in the moment. 

  Echoes of Eastwood’s Unforgiven ripple through Old Henry. It’s felt in the hints of a past far removed from farming, in the…

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★½ 11

  And the winner for Best Facial Hair in a 2021 film goes to Tim Blake Nelson!

  Old Henry is a watchable as hell Western. Once again, another movie with an unexpected action star. Tim Blake Nelson pours every emotion in his body to play Henry. Also, Stephen Dorff is pretty damn good at acting bad. 

  If a good Western is your thing, don’t hesitate to check out Old Henry.

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  Review by Mister Cap ★★★★ 6

  "Old Henry" ist ein Western und dreht sich um Henry, der, seitdem seine Frau vor 10 Jahren verstorben ist, alleine mit seinem Sohn auf einer abgelegenen Farm lebt. Eines Tages taucht ein Pferd mit blutverschmierten Sattel am Horizont auf. Nach kurzer Suche findet Henry auch den schwer verletzten Reiter, der behauptet, ein Sheriff zu sein. Er hat eine Tasche voller Geld bei sich und wird von einer Gruppe verfolgt, die beteuern, ihrerseits Männer des Gesetzes zu sein. Henry muss entscheiden, wem er glaubt. Als Henrys Farm schlussendlich belagert wird, zeigt sich, dass auch Henry einige Geheimnisse mit sich spazieren trägt.

  Mir hat "Old Henry" sehr gut gefallen. Es ist ein Film ohne viel Schnickschnack, ohne Künstlichkeit, nichts ist hier größer…

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★

  The western has been mainstream American directors favorite art film genre since around the biccentenial, a curious fate for an action genre whose best virtues were usually economical and spare down. Old Henry splits the difference in that it is essentially a B western of the kind that remained alive on TV with self conscious arty pretensions. The shadow of Unforgiven are all over it, to the point that it ends with a clear attempt of doing an Eastwoodian final shot. Some of those attempts land, the melancholia feels earned, the somber cinematography works, some of the attempts of mythic weight doesn't and some of the more self conscious touches feel off. I've seen it described as Unforgiven meet Rio…

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  Review by Christian Di Leo ★★★½

  Tim Blake Nelson gets his very own John Wick set in The Old West, and y'know what? I'm all fucking for it, because Tim Blake Nelson fucking deserves it. When it comes to character actors, he's in the upper echelon, he's all the way up in the goddamn stratosphere, baby. Old Henry is a sturdy, well-made and well-paced little western with some great shootouts, even better dialogue and a dynamite villainous performance from Stephen Dorff. It unfortunately suffers from one twist too many right at the end (in my opinion at least), but nevertheless, Old Henry is a damn fine hidden-gem of a western that's very engaging. Saddle up cowboys and gals. Yeehaw!

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  Review by Dan Abel ★★★★

  The year is 1906. Henry is a widowed farmer, living on his own piece of land with his teenaged son. One day a horse with a saddle comes along on it's own and it leads Henry to find a mysterious stranger. He's unconscious and in rough shape but he has a bag of money and a gun so Henry takes him in, hoping to save his life. When the man wakes up he isn't a very pleasant individual. He claims he's the law and wants to be freed. Following the stranger are a posse three more supposed lawmen. Both the stranger and the posse claim the others are outlaws. This leads to a siege in which Old Henry is forced…