Karen Garthe

The history may be wrong or half-baked. The script is often clunky, hackneyed or lame. But this is a soulful, mesmerizing film with moments of real transcendence. There's wonderful chemistry between two leads in a breathtaking landscape in an unspeakably vicious time in American history. And if the history is wrong or bowlderized, the "political correctness" facile (even insulting to that history) the movie's visciousness is instructive -- loudly resonant. Recognizable. So is the love.