Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven's bleak, four-part, 149-minute tale, which features Guy Pearce as a sadistic preacher in the Old West, proves "rigorously unpleasant," says critic Scott Tobias.

Film Review: ‘Brimstone’ Guy Pearce is a reverend from hell and Dakota Fanning his runaway victim in Martin Koolhoven's epic sadomasochistic Western domestic horror film.

Brimstone, the first English-language feature from Dutch director Martin Koolhoven (Winter in Wartime), is probably best described as a Protestant Western.With its punishing 149-minute running ...