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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA fascinating, mythological western.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThe climactic Christmas Day dinner of dreadful retribution is a terrifying prospect, but for anyone with a yen for our great lost genre, it's also some sort of gift.
- 80L.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyL.A. WeeklyF. X. FeeneyThe Proposition is a very hard and harsh movie, but it also has a hypnotic, lyrical velocity. As Arthur, Huston exudes dead charisma.
- 75Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe veteran rock musician Nick Cave wrote the screenplay and John Hillcoat directed, both somewhat in thrall to Sam Peckinpah. The bonds of family are the centerpiece of this highly uneven, hyperviolent film.
- 75TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghA sweat-slicked, near-abstract ballet of blood and sand.
- 70The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneIt is one of those movies--Antonioni's "Red Desert" being the most flagrant example--that spend so much time brimming with moral and political suggestion that they almost forget to tell us what's actually going on.
- 70The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisThe cast of The Proposition is reason enough to see the film.
- 60Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallA good film, but it should’ve been a great one.
- 42The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe sketchily symbolic characters and flat plot just frame an atmosphere of sticky heat and Biblical reckoning.