The Salvation is a gorgeous-looking western with no other aims than being a gorgeous-looking western. Full Review

Rating: 4/5 -- It's the detail -- the fly on the dead man's face and all those close-ups of characters' stirruped boots clanking on wooden floors -- that makes The Salvation so enjoyable. Full Review

It could be Danish filmmaker Kristian Levring's answer to the spaghetti western (this one shot in South Africa with American landscapes CGIed into the background) with a sensibility that echoes the savage frontier novels of Cormac McCarthy. Full Review

Rating: 4/5 -- An excellent entertainment that revels in Western movie cliches, its social commentary subtle and maybe a little subversive. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- The Salvation is of that rare genre: the Danish western, starring the always-magnificent Mads Mikkelsen as Jon, a Nordic settler in the (extremely) Wild West of America in 1871. Full Review

Rating: 3/4 -- Wild West vengeance gets a terrific homage and a bloody reckoning in this oater excursion ... Full Review

Rating: 3/4 -- In an untamed world where hypocrisy is loud and where no one can be trusted, salvation is one's own business and actions speak louder than words. Full Review