‘Let Him Go’: Kevin Costner & Diane Lane Bring The Heart In This Violent Midwestern Thriller [Review]

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Kevin Coster and Diane Lane‘s Let Him Go is on top at the box office.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFocus Features’ “Let Him Go” provided a few sparks at an otherwise lifeless box office, opening over the weekend with an estimated $4.1 million.In these COVID times, that was good enough for a first place finish.

Kevin Costner and Diane Lane reunite on the big screen as George and Margaret Blackledge, a couple fighting to rescue their grandson from his wicked stepfather, Donnie Weboy (Will Brittain), and his villainousfamily in the Focus Features film Let Him Go. Lesley Manville plays Blanche Weboy, the matriarch of the mysterious Weboy clan at the center of the dramatic thriller set in the 1960s.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorAs a modern Western, “Let Him Go” interweaves landscapes of the American West with domestic settings that convey the drama of the characters’ lives. The film, starring Kevin Costner as sheriff George Blackledge and Diane Lane as Maggie, shows the two as they travel across sweeping landscapes to bring their grandson home after their son dies, and take him from the Weboys family.At the heart of the film are the two houses, the Blackledge home and the Weboys home.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorIn “Let Him Go,” Kevin Costner and Diane Lane play a longtime married midwestern couple in the 1950s who attempt to save their grandson and dead son’s widow from the violent family she married into.Costner insists viewers will be in for the same kind of ride they enjoyed with a couple of his classics.“I try to become [the moviegoer] when I’m reading the script for the first time, which is, what’s this journey going to be for somebody, and

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterThis weekend, Focus Features will bring to theaters the feature adaptation of Let Him Go starring Oscar winner Kevin Costner and Oscar nominee Diane Lane.Directed and written by Thomas Bezucha, the suspense thriller is based on Larry Watson’s popular 2013 novel of the same name. The story follows retired sheriff George Blackledge (Costner) and his wife Margaret (Diane Lane) after they lose their son.

anything — to get back her grandson.The film doesn’t start out so ruthless. After Margaret (Lane) and George’s (Kevin Costner) son dies from falling off a horse, leaving behind his young wife, Lorna (Kayli Carter), and newborn son, the movie falls into a therapeutic trance.

Lesley Manville doesn’t show up until about halfway through the slow-burn, '60s-set Western “Let Him Go," but the arrival of the platinum blonde Blanche Weboy is worth the wait.The matriarch of a North Dakota gang saunters into the frame in a haze of cigarette smoke and overcooked pork chops to greet her visitors, played by Kevin Costner and Diane Lane.

“Let Him Go," this time front and center but likewise retired and living close to the land. And the pairing is just as good.

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Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Let Him Go,” starring Diane Lane and Kevin Costner as an aging rancher couple out to rescue their grandson from a clan of varmint in-laws, is set in Big Sky Country about 50 years ago, and it’s like a family-values, homespun-nostalgia version of “The Searchers” crossed with “Midsommar” on the range. If that sounds like an oddball of a movie, but one that’s going to keep you watching, it is.