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Brimstone
Directed by
Martin Koolhoven
R
2016
2h 28m
Thriller
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Western
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7.0
45%
54%
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From the moment the new Reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows that she and her family are in great danger.
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Cast of Brimstone
Guy Pearce
The Reverend
Dakota Fanning
Liz
Carice van Houten
Anna
Kit Harington
Samuel
Vera Vitali
Sally
Emilia Jones
Joanna
Paul Anderson
Frank
William Houston
Eli
Charlotte Croft
Abigail
Ivy George
Sam
Bill Tangradi
Nathan
Jack Roth
Wolf
Jack Hollington
Matthew
Carla Juri
Elizabeth Brundy
Frederick Schmidt
Sheriff Zeke
Naomi Battrick
Narrator
Tygo Gernandt
Crawling Outlaw
Alexandra Guelff
Working Girl
Adrian Sparks
Eli's Father
Justin Salinger
Doctor
Peter Blankenstein
Man in Gunfight
Dorian Lough
Street Preacher
Natascha Szabo
Working Girl
Martha Mackintosh
Pregnant Woman
Joe David Walters
Sally's Customer
Sam Louwyck
Marriage Broker
Dan van Husen
Coach Driver
Joseph Kennedy
Husband of Pregnant Woman
Bob Stoop
Drunken Miner #2
Henry Buchmann
Mine Worker
Fergus O'Donnell
Fred Eastman
Hon Ping Tang
Meng
Andrew Harwood Mills
Man at Bar
Ad van Kempen
Arie
Ellie Shenker
Young Girl
Frieda Pittoors
Agatha
Sid Van Oerle
Drunken Miner #1
Amelie Ha
Chinese Girl
Irene van Guin
Working Girl
Judith Edixhoven
Working Girl
Talizia Hoysang
Working Girl
Paula Siu
Meng's Wife
Griffin Stevens
Customer
Lydia Pauley
Working Girl
Isabella Depeweg
Working Girl
Florentine Seuffert
Working Girl
Sue Maund
Abigail's Mother
Elizabeth Müller
Working Girl
Alexandra Wirth
Working Girl
Baely Saunders
Jackie
Stephanie Andrzejewski
Working Girl
Rebecca Theresa Schedler
Working Girl
Danila Linzke
Working Girl
Hans-Joachim van Wanrooij
Blacksmith
Farren Morgan
Mike
Julie Plitschke
Working Girl
Raimond van Soest
Dead Man #1
Katharina Frucht
Working Girl
Leon van Waas
Barman
Ian Xu
Chinese Boy
Ninh Kerger
Chinese Pedestrian
Martin Koolhoven
Director / Writer
Els Vandevorst
Producer
Uwe Schott
Producer
Brimstone Ratings & Reviews
Matthias_812
April 2, 2025
Void of any happiness, Brimstone is a brutal descent into dark corners of human cruelty under the guise of religion. This grim western is a tale of vengeance, oppression, and resilience in the face of relentless evil. Dakota Fanning conveys oceans of pain and determination without saying (mostly) a word. Opposite her, Guy Pearce is unhinged, embodying a sadistic force of judgment and malevolence. One of the bleakest characters in film. Sadly there are religious extremists like this out there whether they act on it or not. The nonlinear narrative slowly unravels with Brimstone wallowing in its depressive state. Capturing the harsh landscapes and unforgiving nature of frontier life to only enhance the upsetting tone. The violence is gruesome but it never gets gratuitous- instead, it amplifies the themes of patriarchal brutality and survival against impossible odds. Not your average western though an impressive one.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
Fanning is in fine form as a woman who can't vocalize her emotions, though it's Pearce here who steals the show.
WBAI Radio
Prairie Miller
The religious fundamentalism ideologically rooted in this country finds allegorical terror in the diabolical Preacher. Reveling in the brutality, fanaticism and warped self-righteousness ultimately at the dark, messianic heart of US exceptionalism today.
Spliced Personality
Sean Burns
Ostentatiously unpleasant, mired in a grim solemnity nowhere near as intelligent nor enlightening as the film seems to think it is.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Exhausting, pretentious, and tedious. It's one of the most painfully boring, overlong and disappointing Westerns since Heaven's Gate.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
Gruesome and dark as it can be. But could I stop watching? Not me!
North Shore Movies
Daniel M. Kimmel
...a dark and engaging story of two people who won't give up, one for his evil ends, the other for her chance of survival.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Some stylish visuals and intriguing genre flourishes aren't enough to overcome the ponderous pace and narrative gimmicks.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
I'm all for heroic exertion in pursuit of one's art, but in this case I wish Koolhoven had tried therapy first.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
For all the visceral depictions of hatred and violence and human destruction, it feels as if the director is chasing his own tail and forgetting about making it all mean something.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The carnage pushes you away (and wears you down), even as the genre, industrious cast, beautiful landscapes and stark, often striking visuals pull you in.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
A film that ostensibly aims to expose the subjugation of women spends an awful lot of time hurting and humiliating them.
NPR
Scott Tobias
After a while ... Koolhoven's inability to modulate the action with wit or even minor shifts in tone makes Brimstone an oppressive grind.
Entertainment Weekly
Darren Franich
Against all odds, Brimstone's a snooze.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
Reverent and ridiculous in equal measure, Martin Koolhoven's latest epic is a wild pseudo-Western that trembles beneath the biblical weight of its comically grim story.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
Its bid for social correctness does nothing to make the juvenile and numbing fixation on brutality any more palatable.
Village Voice
Michael Nordine
You'll feel all 148 minutes of Brimstone's runtime - just maybe not in the way Koolhoven wants you to.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Even when the film is horrible to look at, it's beautiful, a strange and grim portrait of an annihilating American frontier.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
The absorbing and uncompromising Brimstone is a visceral and elegantly grimy vision of an Old West where money, religion, power and politics may be the domains of men, but survival is a woman.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
Koolhoven has painted himself into a corner because the film's unifying theme, the maltreatment of women at the hand of righteous-acting men, takes much too long to crystallize.
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