Summarize the following movie reviews:

1. Beautifully told and wonderfully performed.
2. The spirits of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone are invoked in this horribly brutal outback western, directed by John Hillcoat and scripted by Nick Cave.
3. This Down Under horse opera is violent, grim and stunningly good.
4. Brutal, bloody and brilliant, this is superior filmmaking, and more evidence of the renaissance of the Australian film industry.
5. An ensemble cast of pure talent in a visceral story of frontier justice and the pursuit of it.
6. The Proposition is an epic drama on a grand scope.
7. For people who like their Westerns with brains.
8. Here is an unpretentious movie for those who are willing to take a film for its surfaces...and want to forget themselves for a while.
9. Hillcoat tries to make the film work with blood, death, degradation and loud music. In the end, it's just too nihilistic and self-conscious to be convincing or involving.
10. It's a savagely entertaining look at the nature of man.

Summary:
Brutal, unflinching, and violent, but thought-provoking and with excellent performances, this Australian western is the one of the best examples of the genre to come along in recent times.