First Cow

POSITIVES…

  • Seems to really capture what it must be like in the American frontier of the 1820s, in a slice of life kind of way.

  • The friendship between John Magaro's Cookie Figowitz and Orion Lee's King Lu is at the heart of this story.

  • Those stories and monologues that Orion Lee gets to say.

  • Toby Jones as Chief Factor is a fine addition to the cast of this movie.

  • Everything to do with the cow.

  • Who doesn't love a good delicious biscuit?

  • Gotta appreciate the confidence and vision by Co-writer & Director Kelly Reichardt for this particularly unique kind of indie art film.

NEGATIVES…

  • Not a fast moving movie. Indulgences itself by taking its sweet time.

  • I would say it doesn't really get going until almost halfway through the movie.

  • You might think it meanders too much, is listless, and probably boring.

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First Cow - watch it on SHOWTIME