“…there isn’t a detail in Floating Weeds that isn’t meant to be carefully seen.”

“…there is the suggestion of religion as a haunting presence, a burden to bear.”

“…a primal scream over justice denied and civilization lost.”

“…less a deromanticized Western than an emasculated one.”

“…the old-timey aesthetic here is so overwrought the characters seem stuck in prehistoric amber.”

“In Peckinpah’s world, the law and the lawless are one and the same – destructive agents of chaos.”

“When production design is this cleverly incorporated into the story at hand, it can carry an entire movie.”

“…works better than it should, given its extremely limiting conceit.”

“…gets off to a gangbusters start. And then Shakespeare butts in.”

“If Swinton and Hiddleston have a shared gift, it’s the ability to inhabit theatricality naturally.”