Caroline Weldon moves to Dakota in the 19th century and tries to help the Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people.
4 June 1967, Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada
9 February 1953, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
30 May 1962
October 6, 1966 in Taos, New Mexico, USA
9 December 1945, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 March 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
June 25, 2018
As a character, Catherine Weldon suffers the same fate as Sitting Bull, having been reduced to a signifier of the filmmakers' retroactive political correctness.September 20, 2017
Woman Walks Ahead remains stagnant as a politically correct but enervating historical drama.September 18, 2017
Despite the estimable talent on hand both behind and in front of the camera, the story never comes to convincing life and doesn't, in the end, have anywhere particularly surprising or interesting to go.April 19, 2018
Steven Knight's script veers dangerously close to white-savior territory, but the complexity of the native characters is commendable, and the performances are first-rate.September 11, 2017
As white savior stories go, it's still progress to find one that lives up to such a feminist title as this.April 23, 2018
While some have argued Woman Walks Ahead is a white savior movie, the sorrowful awareness of the film is that it knows all too well about its privilege, and the pain such good intentions can still inflict from 1890 to 2018.September 28, 2017
The real issue, though, is that it confuses different types of oppression, and seems to propose that people who've experienced misogyny are uniquely qualified to understand racism and vice versa.May 12, 2018
Woman Walks Ahead might have its imperfections, but if you are attentive, you'll find it can be rewarding.June 23, 2018
Despite screenwriter Steven Knight's pedigree of grippingly good thrillers, this historical western becomes a very long walk too quickly for its own good.September 12, 2017
Well-crafted, ably told and manages to connect with its earnest good intentions and desire to please.September 22, 2017
A listless but lustrously shot biopic...June 25, 2018
Perceptively plaintive, recalling our Native American ethnic tragedy, made timely by the current agitation at Standing Rock.