This seems to be the year the Western genre makes a resurgence, especially with the first two parts of Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga and Pedro Almodover’s short film A Strange Way of Life (now streaming on Netflix). Now, […]

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One of the most striking, haunting debuts of this year is Felipe Gálvez’s The Settlers. The otherworldly western is Chile’s official submission to the 96th Academy Awards. Set around the beginning of the 20th century, it centers on the massacre […]

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(The 61st New York Film Festival runs September 29-October 15. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review of The Settlers. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Felipe Gálvez’s directorial debut The Settlers takes us on a journey to early […]

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Prepare yourselves for the next Nic Cage extravaganza. The Oscar winner stars in his sixth film of the year that no doubt has blood and carnage. Butcher’s Crossing is directed by Gabe Polsky who adapts John Williams’ 1960 novel for […]

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Legendary filmmaker Walter Hill (48 Hrs; The Warriors) returns this fall with a new western. Ten years after his Oscar-winning role as a bounty hunter/dentist in Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz returns to the genre to set guns ablaze in Dead […]

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The heroes are two brothers back from a youth spent in California, who take up the cause of defenseless villagers, adding a dash of Seven Samurai-like chivalry to the affair.

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Let’s just say that the cinematic pedigree of Contemporary Color does not disappoint.

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Ti West's IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE delivers the goods and firmly establishes the director as a multi genre talent

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Western is cinematic nonfiction of a superior order.

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