The Homesman (2014)

Hilary Swank’s frontierswoman Mary Bee Cuddy wants it all. Although she efficiently and prosperously runs her own farmstead in the Nebraska Territory in the 1850s, she still longs for a husband and children. “I live uncommonly alone,” she explains to two possible prospects in the course of the film — neither a match for her former schoolteacher manners and talents — who unanimously reject her as plain and bossy. Read the full review here.