In the fall of 1823, a group of fur trappers known as Ashley's Hundred were traveling through present-day South Dakota on ...

The true odyssey of Hugh Glass is a stupendously-thrilling action drama of one man’s tenacity to survive under the most horrific conditions that also serves as a lofty modern morality teaching of how ...

Humor is a crucial form of imagination, and the lack of it is a sign—but not proof—of a failure of imagination. There’s a kind of spiritual illumination, a holy state, that can get away without humor, ...

“The Revenant” won the Best Drama Motion Picture category at the Golden Globe Awards. And last week, “The Revenant” scored 12 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director ...

In The Revenant Leonardo Dicaprio plays 19th century frontiersman Hugh Glass, whose remarkable story has become something of an American legend. But unlike Paul Bunyan, Glass and his story are real ...

“The Revenant” has been enthusiastically embraced by Christian cinephiles for its spiritual themes, but Steven Greydanus says it calls for a critical response to onscreen violence. Listen “The ...

A traditional Old West survival-and-revenge tale assumes the dimensions of a harrowing voyage to the American frontier’s heart of darkness in The Revenant. Pushing both brutal realism and extravagant ...

The frontier survival story/revenge tale undergirding Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's grim but gripping "The Revenant" can't technically be described as something exceptionally new. Such stories are, ...

For weeks, The Revenant has been heard, but little seen. The 19th-century Western, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as frontier legend Hugh Glass, opened on Christmas Day in a mere four theaters, but the ...

Note to movie pussies: The Revenant is not for you. Life put the screws to Hugh Glass, the real-life tracker and fur trapper played to the hilt and beyond by Leonardo DiCaprio. And director Alejandro ...