The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

"Perhaps for some, there will be an element of a moral sledgehammer about the messaging."

"A powerful, and still quite rare, view on the fraught founding of contemporary Australia..."

"The problems start to build in the film’s second half... the scenes in the town have a lumbering predictability with some purple patches of overacting."

"Leah Purcell brings the passion, but the drama is occasionally a little generic."

"A towering turn from the writer, director, producer and star Leah Purcell is reason enough to see this (film)."

"It’s Purcell’s powerhouse performance that lends the film its punchier, gritty edge."

"Purcell, as star, stays resolute to the last, but as filmmaker, her sharp ideas are dulled into something that barely leaves a mark."

"Despite struggling with a thematic focus, the film presents a woman who is well worth getting to know."

"A subversive survival story that brings an unflinching new perspective to Australian cinema’s ongoing engagement with the frontier."

"The engrossing thriller is admirably ambitious but choppy, at times eluding the director’s grasp."

"Exceptionally compelling..."

"An impassioned film with an unflinching Indigenous and feminist perspective."