Brimstone's reviews
Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Koolhoven has painted himself into a corner because the film's unifying theme, the maltreatment of women at the hand of righteous-acting men, takes much too long to crystallize.
The Playlist
The absorbing and uncompromising 'Brimstone' is a visceral and elegantly grimy vision of an Old West where money, religion, power and politics may be the domains of men, but survival is a woman.
El Mundo
As all you can imagine, the director submits the audience to a recital of all posible perversions.
New York Times
'Brimstone' might have been better if Mr. Koolhoven had roughed up the story more (and not only his heroine) and gone for full-on exploitation
JoBlo
A sadistic, punishingly long neo-western I couldn't quite bring myself to dislike.
The Guardian
Fanning is a game enough presence, chosen presumably for her open, expressive qualities as befits a woman who can?t speak.
Variety
For all of Martin Koolhoven's talent, a hifalutin exploitation picture like 'Brimstone' has too much - and not enough - on its mind.
Screen Daily
What?s lacking here is a clarity of vision and control of tone that would give this prestige Euro-Western?s mannerisms a focus.
Indiewire
This disturbingly watchable religious Western makes a solid case that hell is a place on Earth.
Los Angeles Times
A film that ostensibly aims to expose the subjugation of women spends an awful lot of time hurting and humiliating them.
Vanity Fair
Even when the film is horrible to look at, it?s beautiful, a strange and grim portrait of an annihilating American frontier, as imagined by a European.
Entertainment Weekly
Themes of incest and sexual assault run through the movie, but 'Brimstone' is a bit of a goof, really.
Roger Ebert
I'm all for heroic exertion in pursuit of one's art, but in this case I wish Koolhoven had tried therapy first.