“Hostiles” arrives, showcasing just how exceptional the genre can be when the right combination of cast and director unites.
The film from 2017, helmed by Scott Cooper and which notably premiered precisely eight years ago today at Telluride, has experienced a resurgence on Netflix, where it now holds the #10 position on the platform’s daily Top 10 movies list for the U.S. Despite facing competition from major titles like “KPop Demon Hunters” and “The Thursday Murder Club,” “Hostiles” is still surreptitiously shining as one of the most undervalued films on the streaming service currently. We’ll delve deeper into it below, along with reasons it may be worthwhile to check it out if you overlooked it previously.
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Featuring Christian Bale as a U.S. Army captain with a violent history marked by the deaths of numerous Native Americans, who is assigned to escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family through perilous lands, “Hostiles” narrates a tale of atonement and unexpected partnerships. The cast also features Scott Shepherd and Rosamund Pike — and while the narrative’s foundation may seem recognizable (you can indeed observe a rather similar interaction unfold
