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Displaying all articles tagged:
Westerns
vulture lists
Mar. 13, 2024
The 50 Greatest Western Movies Ever Made
The Western is a vital genre with the habit of reinventing itself . These are the best of the past 120 years.
By
Keith Phipps
movie review
Sept. 30, 2022
The Great Walter Hill Returns to the West, for Better and for Worse
The movie’s not perfect, but it’s well worth watching to see what a master filmmaker can do with limited resources.
By
Bilge Ebiri
chat room
Nov. 13, 2021
Zazie Beetz on Stagecoach Mary, Coping with Burnout, and Going Back to
Atlanta
The Emmy-nominated actress on what she learned from Regina King and the
Atlanta
cast’s “24/7” group text.
By
Kellee Terrell
prequels
Nov. 8, 2021
Yeehaw,
Yellowstone
Is Getting a Prequel
Y: 1883
will be a Dutton family origin story, and it will stream on Paramount+.
By
Rebecca Alter
movie review
Nov. 5, 2021
Netflix’s
The Harder They Fall
Is a Mess, But It’s a Fun Mess
This star-studded, stylized Western may not hang together, but it has an infectious energy all its own.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Oct. 1, 2021
If You Like Westerns, You’ll Want to See
Old Henry
Tim Blake Nelson reminds us that he’s one of the best we’ve got.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Sept. 20, 2021
Let Nicolas Cage Guide You Through the Madness of
Prisoners of the Ghostland
In Japanese director Sion Sono’s eye-popping postapocalyptic Western-samurai-sci-fi epic, the actor gets to play hero, villain, and clown.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Sept. 15, 2021
Clint Eastwood’s Lovely, Awkward
Cry Macho
Is As Fragile As Its 91-Year-Old Star
The picture doesn’t always work, but it works when it has to.
By
Bilge Ebiri
home on the cage
Sept. 8, 2021
Yeehaw, Nicolas Cage Is Making His First Western
Because
Prisoners of the Ghostland
is more of a hybrid, really.
By
Rebecca Alter
movie review
Sept. 2, 2021
The Power of the Dog
and Jane Campion’s Triumphant Return
Her new Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst may be one of her greatest films.
By
Bilge Ebiri
trailer mix
Aug. 5, 2021
Clint Eastwood Used to Be a Lot of Things in the
Cry Macho
Trailer
Premiering September 17.
By
Bethy Squires
movie review
Jan. 15, 2021
The Gorgeous, Moving
News of the World
Features Tom Hanks at His Best
A Western from the director of
Captain Phillips
and
The Bourne Ultimatum
, if you can believe that.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Nov. 6, 2020
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane Give the Elegiac
Let Him Go
Its Power
And then a fire-breathing Lesley Manville steals it from them.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movie review
Apr. 20, 2019
For All Its Bleakness, You Can’t Stop Watching Nia DaCosta’s
Little Woods
This is not exactly a movie about how the opioid epidemic has ruined communities, but you do see how the opioid epidemic has ruined communities.
By
Bilge Ebiri
movies
Nov. 13, 2018
A Look at the Coen Brothers’ Long-standing Obsession With the Western
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
is Joel and Ethan Coen’s second Western in the last eight years — but only if you’re being strict with your definitions.
By
Keith Phipps
movie review
Nov. 9, 2018
In
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
, the Coens Take Old Westerns to a New Frontier
This might be their bleakest work of all, and one of their richest.
By
David Edelstein
Dec. 15, 2017
Hostiles
Is a Well-Intentioned Downer of a Western
Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike star in this slog, which still doesn’t do right by its native characters.
By
Emily Yoshida
June 30, 2017
Edgar Wright’s Forgotten Film Debut ‘A Fistful of Fingers’
Edgar Wright’s newest film Baby Driver is out this week, and if early reviews are any indication, it can easily stand alongside his previously […]
By
Ramsey Ess
the golden age of television
Jan. 10, 2017
Coen Brothers Entering a New (for Them) Frontier: Directing a TV Series
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
will be a limited-series Western.
By
Tolly Wright
new frontiers
Jan. 3, 2017
Kevin Costner Wants to Make a 10-Hour Western
He’s cool with it being a TV series, too.
By
Tolly Wright
obits
Sept. 5, 2016
Wyatt Earp
Actor Hugh O’Brian Dead at 91
O’Brian played the gunfighter in ABC’s
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
.
By
Nate Jones
westward no!
Aug. 18, 2016
Hell or High Water
and the West’s Broken Promise
New takes on “the West” depict a frontier in foreclosure.
By
Adam Sternbergh
trailer mix
Dec. 7, 2015
See Natalie Portman in
Jane Got a Gun
Trailer
This movie almost never happened.
By
Nate Jones
the industry
Nov. 18, 2015
Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix Making Western
Far Bright Star
tells the story of a failed mission to capture Sancho Panza.
By
Nate Jones
works in progress
Apr. 20, 2014
Quentin Tarantino Hasn’t Given Up on
The Hateful Eight
After All
He did a staged reading of the leaked script in L.A.
By
Delia Paunescu
betrayals
Jan. 21, 2014
Quentin Tarantino Won’t Make
Hateful Eight
After Script Leak
He’s narrowed down the suspects.
By
Halle Kiefer
wicky wild wild west
Nov. 19, 2013
FX Developing Western Miniseries
Desperadoes
Characters may or may not ride fences, come to their senses.
By
Halle Kiefer
rabbit hole
Dec. 27, 2012
A Primer to All
Django Unchained
’s References
QT likes to quote pop culture in his films. A lot.
By
Bilge Ebiri
Dec. 4, 2012
Seth MacFarlane to Direct and Star in His First Western
Hot on the heels of his first movie, Ted, becoming a box office smash, Seth MacFarlane is going to be starring in his first live action movie, […]
By
Bradford Evans
reboots
Aug. 22, 2012
David Mamet Reviving
Have Gun — Will Travel
Westerns, you guys.
By
Margaret Lyons