Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in "Wind River," written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, writer of last year’s Oscar nominee “Hell or High Water.” (COURTESY OF THE WIENSTEIN CO.)
Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in "Wind River," written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, writer of last year’s Oscar nominee “Hell or High Water.” (COURTESY OF THE WIENSTEIN CO.)
The plot description for “Wind River” — an FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder on a Native American reservation — makes it seem like it is easily definable. In truth, “Wind River,” written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, writer of last year’s Oscar nominee “Hell or High Water,” doesn’t comfortably fit into any box.
While one scene echoes “Silence of the Lambs” this isn’t a psychological thriller in the vein of that film or “Seven.” This isn’t a cat-and-mouse murder mystery nor does it play like an extended episode of “Law and Order.” Yes, the film opens with the mysterious death of a Native girl (Kelsey Asbille) and by the end we do discover what happened to her, but the tone of “Wind River” is uniquely its own.
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