Woman Walks Ahead

Susanna White and Jessica Chastain's Woman Walks Ahead is well-meaning but bland, another white savior among natives story.

As a New York widow who travels to South Dakota in 1889 to paint Sitting Bull, the stellar Jessica Chastain can't save this Hollywoodized frontier biopic from grave historical inaccuracy.

Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western.

Weldon and Sitting Bull deserve better. So do we.

Woman Walks Ahead is too often one step behind in making us care.

The good intentions it carries out to the plains don't make up for the tentative falseness at its center, a hero who could herself benefit from a portraitist's clear vision.

It's unclear how historically accurate director Susanna White's film is, but it's quite compelling to find out more about Catherine Weldon.

Once again, Chastain lands a role as a strong woman carving out her own way in the world.

There's much to learn and watching the relationship between Sitting Bull and Weldon grow is a profound thing.

Chastain's performance is the embodiment of Weldon's will and inspiring spirit.