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Created Jun 13, 2015 09:00AM PST • Edited Jun 13, 2015 09:00AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   One of the most unique Westerns I’ve ever seen…. Tough homestead spinster “Plain as an old tin pail and bossy” Hillary Swank volunteers to take 3 insane women from their harsh Nebraska homestead to Iowa to get care. The movie gives a glimpse in to what it was like to live a brutal existence: weather, scrub, Indians, thieves, wolves…. You end up understanding why anyone would go crazy out there and back then.

4. Acting

   Really Great 4.5

   Really great performances from Hillary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones. She does spartan spinster to a t, and he does gruff old gunslinger like he’s always had that kind of role. Great appearances from John Lithgow, James Spader, and Meryl Streep as well.

5. Male Stars Really Great 4.5

6. Female Stars Really Great 4.5

7. Female Costars Really Great 4.5

8. Male Costars Really Great 4.5

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 1.8

17. Sex Titillating 1.8

18. Violence Fierce 1.8

19. Rudeness Salty 1.8

21. Reality

    Natural 1.0

22. Circumstantial Natural 1.0

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0