2014 · drama · historical
The Guide
2014
When a distraught woodsman reluctantly agrees to guide two New Yorkers on a deer hunt in the frozen wilderness of December's northwestern Maine, his sanity begins to slip away as the wreckage that his buck hunting set in motion a year before catches up with him.
Our read: The Guide (2014) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · historical entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / historical, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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