The 2017 film Hostiles is a somber, visually arresting revisionist Western that explores themes of redemption, trauma, and the cycle of violence on the American frontier .
Set in 1892, the story follows Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale), a legendary Army officer harboring a deep-seated hatred for Native Americans . For his final mission, he is ordered to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief, Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi), and his family from New Mexico back to their ancestral lands in Montana . Along the way, they pick up Rosalie Quaid (Rosamund Pike), a traumatized sole survivor of a brutal Comanche attack . TIFF 2017: Hostiles Review - That Shelf Hostiles image