This film has an unrelenting intensity that closes in on the viewer. The conspirators, led by rich landowner William King Hale, played with chilling calculated brutality by Robert DeNiro, orchestrate a series of grisly murders to capture the wealth of targeted Osage families. The focus of the conspiracy is the marriage of Hale’s nephew, Ernest Burkhardt, played wonderfully by Leonardo DiCaprio, to an Osage woman, Mollie, played brilliantly by Lily Gladstone. Their marriage and relationship intersects the mass killing spree undertaken by whites to seize the wealth of the Osage. Powerfully developed to maximize the feeling of being witness to a slow-motion horror show.
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