It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Good movie overall but let down by really bad sound, volume button was getting a good workout for the majority of the runtime .. Super quiet voices, almost mumbling.. Did they not hear this in editing? Or should i say not hear !!

Wind River's director Taylor Sheridan follows up his acclaimed screenplays for of 2016 Hell or High Water and 2015 Denis Villeneuve's Sicario with his first directorial effort.. Wind River is another modern-day western, full of tense action and tough, taciturn characters trying to navigate life on the fringes of America. But if Sicario and especially Hell or High Water explored the damaging legacy of the frontier myth on a country that's rigged to favor the few, then Wind River makes the connection more forceful, set as it is on a Native American reservation that's been left to its own devices with none of the infrastructure necessary to let its inhabitants thrive. The film opens with the death of a young woman. Discovered miles from anywhere in the frozen wilds of Wyoming's Wind River reservation, she's found and identified by Jeremy Renner (Cory Lambert), a game tracker with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He knows the girl, knows her family, knows that something horrifying must have forced this Native American teenager to run barefoot through the night until her lungs packed up. Wind River may be considered slow and boring for many as the film isn't the typical crime drama, though within the second half of the film, it picks up and becomes completely engaging. The acting from the cast is what sells the film, as well as the cinematography of the outdoors. The shots are well done. Although somewhat of a predictable mystery as we see the film descend, the second act of the film makes up for it. Recommend.

They killed a coyote for this movie and lied about it! The movie does not carry a "no naimals were harmed" tag and no animal rights/protection group was assigned to monitor while filming. Red flags everywhere! Plain and simple, they killed an animal for this movie!

An excellent moody little crime drama with a fine sense of the beautiful but dangerous winter location. I'd recommend watching it but it is let down by the director's script, which is laced with typical US movie pseudo-philosophical banalities placed mainly in the mouth of the central character. One other thing, given the sharp decline in the wildlife of the US protected conservation area, it's a bit off putting that our hero is apparently employed with knocking off any species that might remotely trouble livestock owners...