Roderick MacKay's debut is a quieter affair than what audiences may have grown to expect from the ever-expanding Australian genre, but its subdued journey into the Golden unknown of the outback is no less engaging or powerful. Full Review

Rating: 3.5/5 -- This is a bloody and thrilling adventure film that owes more to revisionist westerns than worthy period dramas. Full Review

An enjoyably absorbing experience. Full Review

Rating: 4/5 -- And although some of MacKay's points land bluntly, his often brash narrative ultimately proves equally as hypnotic and ruthless as the film's sun-parched setting. Full Review

Lacking the brutality - and, frankly, the ambition - of recent Outback westerns such as The Proposition and The Nightingale, The Furnace feels almost quaint Full Review

Rating: B -- There's enough depth to the central conflict to make "The Furnace" worthy of the cinematic traditions that inspired it. Full Review

Rating: 2.5/5 -- MacKay is not lacking in talent, but for a first-time director he may have taken on a little too much. While the scattered quality of the storytelling may be partly deliberate, a bigger problem is the lack of consistent tone. Full Review