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Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscapepulsating with both freedom and menacethat she previously traversed inThe Pianoin order to plumb the masculine psyche inThe Power of the Dog,set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savages novel. After a sensitive widow (Kirsten Dunst) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) move in with her gentle new husband (Jesse Plemons), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or spell his destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers.