Damsel

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Far from a perfect film — the morals are clunky, the pacing awkward at points — Damsel still manages to achieve the rare distinction of being both ambitious and just so much goddam fun.”

  Dana Schwartz, Entertainment Weekly · 91

• “Austin mainstays the Zellner brothers have managed to make a Western genre film appropriate for the #MeToo era’s audience.”

  Danielle White, Austin Chronicle · 89

• “Nearly every scene takes a sideways turn, and nearly every expectation we have doesn’t work out the way we anticipate it working out, and that’s what makes the journey so much fun.”

  Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times · 88

• “There are few films that make one rethink the entire genre that came before it, but with their continually surprising, feminist bent approach, the Zellners have succeeded in doing so.”

  Jordan Raup, The Film Stage · 83

• “The downside to the Zellners’ uncompromising approach is that they sometimes hold an inspired moment for too long. Certain scenes drag, and some banter has an airless quality that causes a few gags to fall flat. But it’s often rescued by nuggets of hilarious dialogue...and the steady realization that the movie always has been one step ahead of audience assumptions.”

  Eric Kohn, IndieWire · 83