Mohawk

Name: Mohawk
Director: Ted Geoghegan
Released: 2018

Synopsis

A young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

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Variety
[Geoghegan] allows his film’s message about intolerance and oppression to emanate naturally from the action, thereby letting the proceedings gradually transform into a revisionist fantasy of defiance, expulsion and vengeance.
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Paste Magazine
Mohawk is exciting on its own merit. Seen as a piece of Geoghegan’s growing filmography, it’s positively thrilling, a great extension of its author’s fascinations.
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Slant Magazine
Ted Geoghegan's Mohawk is a survival-of-the-fittest film that's charged with a thunderous urgency.
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The Film Stage
While some of its dramatic gestures fall short or feel stilted, it is through sheer pervasive commitment to its characters and message that Mohawk’s grimy power is able to shine.
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The A.V. Club
Viewers who are looking for something thought-provoking as well as thrilling have come to the right place.
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Los Angeles Times
Mohawk is a gripping and despairing action picture, about how we can't seem to stop trying to destroy those we distrust — including ourselves.
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Village Voice
Mohawk takes its time revealing all its generic elements, but at its high point dares to vault toward something grander and more mythic than action-adventure realism.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Respectful of its heroes' suffering and willing (for a while, at least) not to afford them the usual big-screen satisfactions, it mourns a centuries-old genocide through the torment of three young protagonists.