Movie review: The Power of the Dog is a slow-burning psycho-sexual thriller

Let’s hope we don’t have to wait another decade for another Jane Campion film. 

The Power of the Dog

★★★★★ 

‘I stink and I like it,’ Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch) tells his brother George (Jesse Plemons) in The Power of the Dog (12A), and Phil isn’t kidding: the rest of America might be dazzled by the Jazz Age, but Phil is the kind of old-fashioned cowpoke who takes a bath once a year whether he needs it or not.