First Cow

King-Lu and Cookie need each other…and First Cow commiserates with their journey in a kind-hearted fashion that allows the movie to resonate w...

Reichardt delivers an expertly lush, languid tale about friendship, class, and yes, a very handsome cow…

This haunting movie transports you to another world – and redefines home.

While it fits perfectly into the larger framework of Reichardt’s filmography, it also stands alone in rare, iconoclastic beauty.

The deep, lingering ache of "First Cow" comes from the realization that, even in a world still in the process of being formed, its cruel...

Reichardt has a way of drawing you into her world, where traditional movie tropes have no place and you’re not always sure where she&rsq...

Reichardt works in delicate movements as a storyteller. Magaro and Lee’s wonderful chemistry keeps perfectly in step with the filmmaker.

"First Cow" is as confident and organic as storytelling gets – as rough-edged as it is in style, it’s absurdly rich in ripple effect.

Just don’t mistake the lightness of step for a softness of philosophy.

First Cow is a magnificent yet modest work of tenderness.

I’ve said this before about Reichardt’s films, and for whatever reason I feel the need to say it again. "First Cow" will stri...

It’s a wonderfully neat concept, and Reichhart, often labelled a minimalist, has never been more assured as a storyteller.

First Cow is archetypal Kelly Reichardt, slow, small and perfectly formed, elevated by stellar but understated performances from John Magaro and Or...

A picture that’s both tranquil and dazzling, two qualities that should be at odds with one another yet somehow bloom in tandem under Reichard...

It’s a McCabe & Mrs Miller with cows, and there can be no higher praise than that.

It is somehow both brutal and pastoral, peaceful and laced through with the inevitability of disaster and death.

While not a lot happens in First Cow by the standards of most two-hour narrative films, and some may wish for a less open-ended conclusio...

Reichardt, also the co-writer, delivers a patient and earnest parable about environmentalism, American destiny and the value of friendship.

You’ll need to slow your breathing to sync up, or more likely, down with the movie’s tempo, but Reichardt rewards your patience with&nb...

If only every film could achieve the sublime tenderness of First Cow.

A fable of land and freedom that serves as an up-close-and-personal portrait of friendship and a wider snapshot of America, rooted in the rich...

First Cow is overburdened by that preamble, which suffuses the film with a feeling of inevitability but not narrative tension, and the plot is...

It’s a small, understated movie, but it’s also one of the best of the year so far.

Leave it to [Kelly] Reichardt, one of cinema’s great excavators… to take what history usually relegates to side-stories, footnotes, or long-f...

Some itchy viewers probably (and understandably) won’t make it past the first 20 minutes. But if they stay, the deliberate paces of...

A small story [that] also inspires awe.

A resonant, funny and quite moving shaggy cow story.

There’s an element of parable… Reichardt is critically but not polemically saying something about the nature of capitalism and the so-called...

Never has a film about two losers and the platonic love they have for each other felt more moving or more engaging. Simply wonderful.

A Western, First Cow is sensual, bleak and meticulously authentic, reminiscent of McCabe & Mrs Miller, as well as Barry Lyndon.

Finds a warm balance between tension and the pleasure of just watching two kindred types find each other and make a life for themselves in a d...

This is a bold, perceptive portrait of early America that deserves to be held up as a new standard of historical filmmaking.

What it does right, it does wonderfully.

A parable of economics and politics, with shrewd insights into the workings of supply and demand, scarcity and scale and other puzzles of the marke...

First Cow is especially accomplished in its aesthetic…

Watching their friendship crackle into life is one of the film’s deepest pleasures. Conversation flows so casually that it feels more sighed...

A hypnotic yet simple extrapolation of the early-American frontier… Reichardt’s First Cow [is] as sweet as Cookie’s oily cakes.

Kelly Reichardt gives us a terrifically tough and sinewy tale of the old west, shaped by the brutally implacable market forces of capitalism.

"First Cow" is a wonderfully unhurried film, which may be why it is so captivating. It allows viewers to sink in and absorb the story and...

Some movies feel dead from the first shot, with or without star power, spectacular vistas or the false energy of hurtling pace. First Cow is vividl...

With First Cow, Kelly Reichardt, America’s foremost chronicler of small stories rooted in meticulously-crafted geographical expanses, has del...

Reichardt specializes in pared-down narratives, sometimes stripping away so much that boredom sets in. "First Cow" may be lean, but it offers...

[A] stealthy, resonant, and finally riveting tale…

Kelly Reichardt’s manifest-destiny epic in D minor…gives you the feeling that you’ve just witnessed a major work from a great Amer...

You hold your breath and convince yourself that the inevitable isn’t arriving. And all Reichardt offers to comfort you is a remarkable q...