“Let Him Go,” a Focus Features release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for violence. It’s Margaret who leads the charge, and it’s Lane’s movie even when the film momentarily forgets it. What seems set up for a slow-burn showdown between rival grandmas dissipates in blunt shoot-outs that sidelines Lane’s Margaret at just the wrong time. It’s unclear what they’re about, except that they’re bad news, and their cruelty come off as strange, extravagant gestures in uncertainly defined roles. The Weboys, which include a grinning father (Jeffrey Donovan) and two other brothers, never come through clearly. Their clan, too, comes with a formidable matriarch in Blanche (Lesley Manville, bringing dramatic flare to an otherwise restrained film), a much more violent and sinister corollary to Margret.īut the collision of the two families is managed awkwardly. Finding them at all seems uncertain, but they manage it, and in a menacing dinner, they meet the Weboys. It is also possible to rent 'Let Him Go' on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu, Microsoft Store, Redbox. Their search takes them into North Dakota where the dark reputation of Donnie’s family, the Weboys (pronounced “wee-boys”), begins to surround them before they’ve even crossed state lines. Currently you are able to watch 'Let Him Go' streaming on Freevee for free with ads or buy it as download on AMC on Demand, DIRECTV, Redbox, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu, Microsoft Store. (Costner is more identifiable with Westerns thanks to “Dances With Wolves,” “Wyatt Earp” and others, but don’t forget Lane in “Lonesome Dove.”) “A list of what we’ve lost.” It’s a impression made more powerful by Lane and Costner, both of whom are returning to a genre they’ve visited before but from a different standpoint in life. “Sometimes that’s all life is, Margaret,” says George. They are trying to beat back the loss they feel creeping over their lives. As two childless, grieving figures traversing a Western landscape, the Blackledges seemed carved out of an elegiac mythology. George, a former lawman, gets in.Īt this midway point, “Let Him Go” is good. Margaret starts packing up the Chevy station wagon. Before she’s had much time to respond to it, she finds the family has unexpectedly moved out of their new apartment. Soon after, Margaret sees the new husband Donnie (Will Brittain) striking both mother and son on the street. Bezucha cuts immediately to three years later, when Lorna is remarrying in a small, joyless ceremony. In a series of fast-moving events, James is killed in a horsing accident. Let Him Go is a tense genre piece that finds room to build out its characters, and their flaws, between bursts of action and suspense its a tricky. – Review: With high sorcery, 'The Craft: Legacy' casts a spell.– Review: A rom-com gone wrong in Netflix's ‘Holidate’.– Review: 'Jungleland' treads old paths but still hits hard.
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