Credit: credit: Sony Pictures Classics
On Swift Horses
2025, R, 119 min.
Directed by Daniel Minahan, Starring Jacob Elordi, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Will Poulton, Diego Calva.

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi star in this melodrama about two souls bucking against Eisenhower-era repression and homophobia in what Marjorie Baumgarten calls “a potent picture of the faultlines simmering below the American surface.” Read her full review from the film’s regional premiere at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival.

This article appears in April 25 • 2025.

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