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To Kill a Mongolian Horse

Name: To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025-07-24
Rating: 8.8

Drama1h 37m

8.8/10

8.8

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Storyline

Amid the wintry steppes, Saina, a Mongolian horseman turned cultural performer, tends his ranch during the day and performs horseback tricks for audiences at night. Unlike the majestic cavalryman he portrays in the show, Saina discovers that his herdsman’s life is on the verge of disintegration.

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Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

6 fresh · 0 rotten

Filipe Freitas

RTAlways Good MoviesDec 17, 2025

Adopting a documentary-like, Jia Zhangke-esque approach, To Kill a Mongolian Horse carries a reflective strength, keeping you in quiet suspense until its shattering finale.

Morris Yang

RTIn Review OnlineJul 22, 2025

Jiang’s portrait of a horseman as performer evocatively fleshes out the struggle for identity, against the modernizing hand of capitalist relations no less, but foremost in the performance and preservation of a premodern masculinity

Guillem Martinez Oya

RTCinematismoApr 8, 2025

Xiaoxuan Jiang’s first feature is brilliant. [Full review in Spanish]

John Bleasdale

RTNext Best PictureSep 6, 2024

Fans of Chloe Zhao's 2017 film "The Rider" will find much to like in -- and many similarities with -- "To Kill a Mongolian Horse," with its mourning of a culture eroded by modernism.