So far in his filmmaking career, Taylor Sheridan has demonstrated that he knows how to do gripping survival situations. His action sequences always feel risky and down to the wire, like one wrong move could end the scene as quickly as it began. Those Who Wish Me Dead should be grand slam for someone like him: a film that leaves behind the fraught portrayals of sexual assault and poverty on a Native reservation in his directorial debut Wind River, but keeps the suspenseful action and sense of overarching danger nature can pose if you’re not careful. Continue reading “Review: ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’ Burns Bright”
