Blackthorn

"Each frame is a crystalline JAW-DROPPER."

-Boston Globe

"A CLASSIC OLD-FASHIONED WESTERN, EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS 'BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID'. A beautiful and powerful film. Sam Shepard gives the performance of his career."

-Ed Douglas, ComingSoon.com

"That allure of the Old West is hard to resist. The film reminds just how arresting an actor Shepard can be."

-Betsy Sharkey, LA Times

"IT SHOULD TICKLE WESTERN FANS."

-Mark Holcomb, Village Voice

"AN ELEGAIC, BEAUTIFULLY SHOT WESTERN. Shepard’s best performance since ‘The Right Stuff’."

-Lou Lumenick, NY Post

"It’s Sam Shepard’s best work since The Right Stuff. He still exudes intellectual mischief and hard-stare sex appeal."

-Eric Hynes, Time Out NY

"**** A TERRIFIC, FULL-HEARTED WESTERN, BETTER THAN BUTCH CASSIDY. Sam Shepard crowns his acting carreer."

-David Elliot, San Diego Reader

"AN OUTLAW TALE THAT IS AT ONCE EXCITING AND ELEGIAC, ELEGANT AND EARTHY. Sam Shepard is as good as he’s ever been."

-Marshall Fine, Huffington Post

"Sam Shepard delivers a beautifully understated performance."

-Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

"Sam Shepard delivers in spades. He effortlessly incarnates the Western loner on the lam, his every gesture bespeaking distances to travel, dangers to circumvent and respites to savor."

-Ronnie Scheib, Variety

"Sam Shepard gives one of his finest performances as the grizzled, reflective outlaw. One of the highlights of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival."

-Bilge Ebari, NYMag.com

"BEAUTIFUL AND COMPELLING with a masterful lead performance by Sam Shepard."

-Michael Dunaway, Paste