John Ford’s quintessential frontier tale blends Old West adventure and modern melancholy, with a few content concerns along the trail.
This first installment of Kevin Costner’s planned four-chapter epic Western can be pretty. But it’s also disjointed, violent and raw.
Jordan Peele is back with another provocative horror film. But many might be better off saying “nope” to the film …
Redeeming Love captures a beautiful story of unconditional love but also strays repeatedly into surprisingly provocative imagery.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in a Western that’s both subtle brutal, nuanced and cruel, often at the same time.
This pic sports a script that’s sun-bleached and flavorless; its main star-power ingredient is a bit too far past his …
Let’s just say that The Harder They Fall is pretty much a dissertation on how not to follow the Ten …
This story lauds courage, friendship and family—without throwing a massive amount of unfortunate content at us.
Concrete Cowboy is a modern redemption tale with an equal number of aces and poison snakes in its boot.
News of the World speaks to the difficulties of relationship, of crossing cultural boundaries to truly meet people and earn …
You might even think of this western tale as a blending of the not-so-Wild West with a Hallmark special.
As this movie suggests, gold ain’t the only thing that can do bad things to our souls.
This slowly trotting movie contemplation is both immersive and emotionally wrenching.
Hostiles shows us, viscerally, that hatred and violence in any age are horrible things.
We find a strong dramatic proclamation made that even the most powerful of evil can be faced down by the …
This violent remake presents its seven stars as flawed heroes—bad men with good hearts who sacrifice themselves to deal with …
Hell or High Water has a few memorable moments tucked in with its tobacco pouch. But that memorable stuff is …
A whole lot of bullets find their final resting places in bad guys’ skulls before that riding-off-into-sunset scene finally comes …
The Revenant, like the land it depicts, is beautiful, brutal and unforgiving.
But for all its obvious craftsmanship, The Hateful Eight is ruined by its unremitting incivility.
This sequel to Shanghai Noon picks up several years later, in 1887, as karate-chopping lawman Chon Wang has single-handedly cleaned …
An animated story of the old West ‘from the heart of a horse.’
There’s a general sense of cheeriness at play, often incongruously. But the pic ends up as nothing more than a …
A congenial cowboy and his faithful mustang enter a dangerous cross-country race against the finest-bred Arabian stallions. Loosely based on …
In this Western, a frontier woman must rely on the instincts and skills of her estranged father when her teenage …