Wild Indian is ostensibly a thriller, but it moves at a sedate pace, offering a queasy ambiguity about racial dynamics, generational trauma, and unique kinds of American reckoning with the past.

It feels as if director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr has created something new in his debut feature: a fascinatingly conflicted antihero of Ojibwe heritage who seems entirely distinct from previous Native American protagonists.

An undeniably bold and auspicious debut.

I have to respect Corbine for bringing together two very different subject matters. But when I hoped for more, there was none. And when he wanted me to feel, there was very little.