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Summary Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Nicolas Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edg...

Directed By: Gabe Polsky

Written By: Liam Satre-Meloy, John Williams, Gabe Polsky

In Theaters Now
  • 2023
  • R
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2023
  • R
  • 1 h 45 m
Butcher's Crossing
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) has left Harvard to find adventure. He teams up with Miller (Nicolas Cage), a mysterious frontiersman offering an unprecedented number of buffalo pelts in a secluded valley. Their crew must survive an arduous journey where the harsh elements will test everyone’s resolve, leaving their sanity on a knife’s edg...

Directed By: Gabe Polsky

Written By: Liam Satre-Meloy, John Williams, Gabe Polsky

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
55
43% Positive
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
55
43% Positive
6 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7% Negative
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78
Sep 17, 2022
Polsky’s film digs into the rot in his characters’ psyches for a time but gradually climbs back out again, perhaps in an attempt to put their madness in a larger context social context. But mostly the final act of the film comes across like clunky, though well-earned, moralizing.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 17, 2022
Butcher’s Crossing is a gorgeous travelog. It’s also a warning about what happens when people fail to tread lightly in the natural world, both as a consequence of nature and themselves.
By Andrew Crump FULL REVIEW
67
Nov 8, 2023
Butcher’s Crossing is a decent western, with decent performances. It’s a film that delivers what’s expected. But for a story that could give Captain Ahab a run for his money, getting the expected is a bit disappointing.
By Thom Ernst FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 17, 2022
Despite Nicolas Cage’s committed performance as the imposing, hardheaded leader of the expedition, this mournful yarn can’t quite transcend what’s familiar about its study of masculinity and the unforgiving spirit of the natural world.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 19, 2023
It has a classical moral that would have made Aesop salute: Greed is not only corrupting, it can be self-defeating. Moreover, suspense lies both in wanting to know whether Miller’s quest will succeed and in what lessons might be learned. Though Miller’s actions drive the story, it is mainly an education for Will, the observer.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 17, 2022
There’s some fun to be had in the Brando-like flickers of Cage’s performance, but Polsky’s film is too practical and logic-driven to indulge them.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
38
Oct 20, 2023
Butcher’s Crossing is unfocused, distant, and flat.
By Robert Daniels FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.3
33% Positive
2 Ratings
50% Mixed
3 Ratings
17% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.3
33% Positive
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50% Mixed
3 Ratings
17% Negative
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Production Company Saban Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, Ingenious Media, Gabriel Polsky Productions, Phiphen Pictures, Conqueror Productions, Saturn Films
Release Date Oct 20, 2023
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating R
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