Meek’s Cutoff

Arduous, dispassionate, believable, and bracingly original, Meek’s Cutoff is an ambitious feat of visual storytelling that’s alive to both its landscape and the people who inhabit it. Meticulous and immersive, like history in three dimensions, it’s a highly textured chronicle of encountering the terror and vastness of the unknown, as witnessed through the lives of its hard-bitten protagonists.