Marlon Brando’s sole directorial credit is a messy but fascinating combination of Western and Freudian drama.
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Udo Kier gets a lovely late-career showcase, and Leah Purcell directs a brustling but unfocused feminist Western.
Aaron B. Koontz’s horror-western is a dusty, frightfully dull collection of cliches.
Initially a box office flop, Kathryn Bigelow’s stylish horror-Western became an iconic cult classic.
Sam Raimi and Sharon Stone’s quickdraw revenger is stylish and skillfully crafted.
Philip Seymour Hoffman does his level best to elevate Anthony Minghella’s Oscar-friendly Miramax Western, but even he can’t save it.
Lawrence Kasdan’s 1985 throwback Western is overstuffed, but 35 years later boasts loads of charm.
The veteran actress discusses her early turn in Nancy Kelly’s recently-restored feminist Western Thousand Pieces of Gold, and her career since.
Newly restored in 4K by Indiecollect and released by Kino Lorber, Nancy Kelly’s 1991 western softly explores racial and gender-based oppression in late-1800s America.
Scott Teems’s low-key thriller tries to drill through the cultural clashes of the American West, but it hits an emotional bedrock instead.
Thirty years on, the Kevin Bacon monster-Western remains a giddily effective creature feature.
HBO’s robot-revolution series reinvents itself and throws Aaron Paul into the mix.
From the first time we meet Baby Yoda to the final trek of the Razor Crest, we look back at the highs and lows of The Mandalorian’s first season.
Disney+’s live-action Star Wars series shakes off its fan-film cobwebs and shows glimmers of space Western intrigue.
Vince Gilligan returns to the fate of Jesse Pinkman in a thrilling, meditative neo-Western epilogue made strictly for Breaking Bad devotees.
The otherwise-spotty Hateful Eight still contains one of Tarantino’s greatest sequences.
Quibbles about violence and the n-word aside, Quentin Tarantino’s slave-era blaxploitation film remains one of his most exciting works.
David Milch’s long-awaited conclusion to his dark Western series hugs fans like a warm blanket, but be careful – it might be covered in smallpox.