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Meek’s Cutoff: Why It Belongs in the Pantheon

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Filmspotting

Film History, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.64.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Reichardt’s frontier story of faith and free will.

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

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0:51.3

Hey, FilmSpotters, Adam and Josh here.

0:53.7

We've got a full show coming Friday, as

0:56.5

usual, Project Hail Mary, 40s Madness, round two matchups. We thought rather than cram yet

1:03.6

another thing into that episode, why not give you an extra show here? We've got our conversation

1:10.5

about Kelly Rikert's Meeks Cutoff.

1:13.4

Meeks cutoff, 15 years old this spring. It came to theaters April 2011 after playing the Venice,

1:20.0

Toronto, and New York film festivals the previous fall. That anniversary, though, that's not

1:25.1

why we're talking about it necessarily. This is happening because Meeks Cutoff was nominated for the film spotting Pantheon.

1:33.5

It is one of the nine films, Adam, nominated by you, me, and producer Sam, for our 2026 edition of the Pantheon project.

1:43.0

So per rules that we established just last year, only two of

1:47.0

those films, of those nine films, are going to be inducted into the Pantheon. That'll happen

1:52.9

later this year. Did you say, Adam, because you knew I may need to be reminded of the rules?

1:58.5

I'm just always reminding myself as well.

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