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A brutal slice of throwback genre entertainment told with unforgiving gravitas. Holts as you may know is the Philadelphia tobacconist that launched the Ashton brand in 1985 and today maintains a strong catalog and online.
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Old Henry 2021 WesternAction 1h 39m 94 Tomatometer 62 Reviews 91 Audience Score 250 Ratings What to know critics consensus Led by a reliably solid performance from Tim Blake Nelson Old Henry.
. Old Henry is an action western about a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious injured man with a satchel of cash. Such is the case with Potsy Ponciroli s sophomore film Old Henry a character driven oater which suggests elements of fan fiction mining the urban legend of Billy the Kid. And he puts it. No huge names either although Tim Blake Nelson was perfect to play his character.
Old Henry review a rootin tootin barrel of wild-west cliches Tim Blake Nelson has a blast as a pig farmer with something to hide but this low-aiming western is. Old Henry opens with Henrys narration and its hard not to recall Nelson in as Buster Scruggs in the opening segment of Joel and Ethan Coens anthology Western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs narrating with a cheerful bounce and twinkle and singing songs. Old Henry is intentionally at odds with itself and intriguingly so. The cinematography was good the acting was more than good and the story has a little twist that was clever.
Reviews Old Henry Glenn Kenny October 01 2021. Polished badass filmmaking. As Old Henry proceeds it becomes not just a movie about a father learning to let go but also about a son learning to do the same. It tells its slim story competently but it does so little beyond that that it cant help but feel mediocre.
Old Henry is about violence and redemption fathers and sons and the mythology that lives in all our hearts. Led by a singular performance from Tim Blake Nelson Old Henry looks backward lovingly at the Western form while immersing its story anew in the tenets and tensions that have always fueled the genre. But aside from also being a gunfighter Nelsons character here couldnt be more different. It flips the narrative of the western tropes while using historic characters.
The familiarity of western thriller Old Henry is elevated by Tim Blake Nelsons fine performance and filmmaker Potsy Poncirolis flair for suspense. Bonney might add to the weight of Poncirolis conceit which is otherwise. With beautiful widescreen cinematography by John Matysiak impeccable production design and a pitch-perfect score from Jordan Lehning Old Henry is a well-paced and engrossing story and thats even before theres a revelation thats simply fantastic and Ill say no more about that. A mediocre film might be excused somewhat by the merit of some ambition but the problem.
Old Henry is as authentic as Ive ever seen a western. The language they use is fun speechify your inner workings in other words thinking out loud and the hostility to their fellow man all rings true. This year marks the tenth anniversary of Old Henry a house blend made for Holts Cigar Company by none other than José Pepín García. The under appreciated Tim Blake Nelson receives a showcase role worthy of his talents while Stephen Dorff sets himself up as a menacing nasty villain.
When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money the farmer must decide who to trust. Potsy Poncirolis genre western with a twist spends lots of time portraying its. Violence Protection And A Crucial Lesson By Robert Milakovic September 9 2021 The Western genre goes way back to the 1890s and up until the nineteen seventies they were considered pretty much the coolest thing ever with names like John Wayne Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen. The daily graft of everyday life and their quickness to turn to brutality without remorse shows through.
Old Henry an action western about a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious injured man with a satchel of cash. Old Henry is one of those. Old Henry is a slow burner that relies more on character and mystery than action. Old Henry makes a solid honorable go of proving once again that the foursquare western isnt dead though in paying homage to its forebears it inevitably stands in.
Review by Matt Neglia ½ 1 OLD HENRY is my kind of western. Not very fast paced but certainly worth watching. Definitely worth your time if you like westerns. Ponciroli sets the film at an even pace that builds to an operatic crescendo while presiding over a.
Film Review Venice 2021 Tim Blake Nelson plays an early 20th century farmer who takes in an injured man with a satchel full. Old Henry was shot in Tennessee and something about the rolling hills and cold winter light speak to the temporal setting the end of the Old West. Old Henry Pure Breed Toro. Tim Blake Nelson whose performance in the title role of this second fiction feature by director Potsy Ponciroli is its most stellar attribute has the most convincingly exhausted and forlorn hangdog expression in contemporary cinema.
This is a very melancholy little film with its small cast and isolated setting. Defending a siege of his homestead the farmer reveals a talent for gun-slinging that surprises everyone. But it fits a film about endings and death redemption and forgiveness and the tragedy of an inescapable past. When a posse of men claiming to be the law come for the money the farmer must decide who to trust.
Old Henry Review. Mostly though its about Tim Blake Nelson finding a. A certain historical awareness of the outlaw gunfighter nee Henry McCarty alias William H.
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