Indigenous actor Hamilton Morris is quietly magnificent in his first screen role.

Uncompromising, deliberate, and eerily beautiful, director Warwick Thornton's rugged Australian Western puts a new spin on an old story.

If the movie's outlook is less than hopeful, it nevertheless suggests that there is still time to learn from our mistakes.

Warwick Thornton’s work here is sophisticated and disciplined; he knows that, even though his story is set in the 1920s, as a contemporary audience we are being placed on trial as much as we are being asked to bear witness.