Deborah Ross

Definitely the best cow film of the year: First Cow reviewed

Kelly Reichardt’s eighth feature is touching, tender, original, entrancing – and I predict a big future for Evie the cow

Animal attraction: John Magaro as Otis ‘Cookie’ Figowitz, and Evie the Jersey cow, who is as convincing as she is beautiful. Credit: Courtesy of A24 
issue 29 May 2021
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Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow stars John Magaro, Orion Lee, Toby Jones, and a Jersey cow listed in the credits as ‘Evie’, who has a dewy face and big soft eyes. As Reichardt has confessed: ‘She is very beautiful and was cast purely on her looks.’ Evie is, thankfully, as convincing as she is beautiful, and this is a convincing and beautiful film.

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