WIND RIVER (2017) **** Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Graham Greene, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Kelsey Asbille, Tantoo Cardinal, Gil Brimingham. Well-executed slow burner about a murder on a Native American reservation investigated by a rookie FBI agent (Olsen) and a game tracker (Renner in one of his best roles) who find there is more than meets the eye. Filmmaker Taylor Sheridan (in his directorial debut) delivers a taut, intriguing screenplay as the plot unravels with noir precision and canny supporting roles including Greene as a world-weary police chief and Bernthal as a worker whose introduction is shrewdly conceived. One of the year's best films worth seeking out.
