The Hi-Lo Country

"...instead straddles turf that might be better described as Western noir. Sexual tension and deceit overtake the cowboys-on-the-increasingly-mechanized-range elements,..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unforgiven

Eastwood's multiple award-winning Western.

"...movie and a conscious addition to the ongoing celluloid Western mythology, the film is a masterpiece, a stunning and..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Kid

The tale of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid gets a worthwhile if workmanlike retelling

"...Western legends live large – and long, which is why..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rango

Watch out, cartoon critters: There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Rango.

"...in town, and his name is Rango. This animated Western feature continues the working relationship between The Pirates of..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Bill

"...the legend of Wild Bill Hickok in this new Western. Hill's speculations are hardly the problem here, however. Basic..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Aiming for the Big Kill

Scott Martin on the inaccurate West in his new gunslinger flick

"...Forget the myth. Western gunslingers drawing a lightning fast bead, and plugging their..."

Oct. 18, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bone Tomahawk

Hybrid Western/horror film starring Kurt Russell is a brutal delight

"...at the grizzled actor’s perfectly calibrated performance in this horror-Western. Bone Tomahawk is The Searchers mashed up with Wes..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jane Got a Gun

Natalie Portman stars in and produced this Western

"...Come expecting a feminist Western and you’ll be sorely disappointed. This film, which Natalie..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lone Ranger

The Lone Ranger is a Western without a compass.

"...you want to see Johnny Depp in a revisionist Western, check out 2011’s Rango, in which the actor gives..."

July 5, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sweet Country

The modern Western goes to Northern Australia.

"...Questions of morality are ever-present in this lyrical Australian Western in which racism, colonialism, and the merits of Western..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Willing

Western Europeans through most of the last few thousand years haven't been very enthusiastic bathers

"...Ice Age, the history of male sexual activity in Western civilization mainly involves whamming, bamming, and scramming. That's no..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

The Stoning of Soraya M.

This impassioned work of persuasion is like a splatter film made for the Lifetime network, a screed against stoning made for audiences who already agree.

"...movie plays throughout America and other outposts of the Western world. Add to this that the film is based..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

30 Days of Night

This film's high-concept stroke of genius lies not with its vampire clan but with the setting: a tiny Alaskan hamlet where nightfall indeed lasts all month.

"...it's dark everywhere. Which makes Slade's wild, often exhilarating neo-Western ride into frostbit vampirism something of a respite, albeit..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.

"...10 years ago he did direct the fine made-for-TV Western The Good Old Boys), Jones has made a modern..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Darwin's Nightmare

This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.

"...of the lake, fueled by the World Bank, rampant Western globalization, and the cheap labor provided by the lakeside..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Glory Road

Even though Glory Road presents a fictionalized account of what many count as the most significant NCAA basketball game ever played, the film remains a predictable sports rouser.

"...basketball game ever played, between Don Haskins’ underdog Texas Western (now UTEP) and Adolph Rupp’s perennial powerhouse Kentucky in..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ju-on: The Grudge

Fear of what's lurking just out of sight is at the heart of this Japanese horror film.

"...and because of the film’s Asian setting and characters, Western audiences are open to an extra dose of spookiness..."

Sept. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Open Range

"...Benrubi. Kevin Costner’s Open Range is the best new Western to come out of Hollywood in a long time...."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Watch This: Kicking Americana Quintet Restos’ Debut Single “Ain’t Dead Yet”

Former Western Youth members aren’t hanging it up anytime soon

"...the Chronicle premiered a new song from country rockers Western Youth called “Wild Heart,” their tribute to late songwriter..."

April 5, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Tejano

Stone-cold thriller across the Mexican border

"...The film is an action-packed thriller-Western hybrid, but it takes a dreamy pace in setting..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Silence

Two missionaries in feudal Japan are tested

"...film takes place during the feudal shogunate era when Western influences and religions were outlawed on the islands. Catholic..."

Jan. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Kill or Be Killed

Western revenge, Texas style

"...The Western is back. The most American of cinematic art forms..."

March 25, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Blackthorn

Sam Shepard stars in this film which imagines what might have happened if Butch Cassidy had survived and lived on in Bolivia.

"...Gil's film, an elegiac take on the great American Western that sees Butch living to a ripe old age..."

Oct. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Meek's Cutoff

The epic and the elementary combine in Kelly Reichardt's Western survivalist tale that stars Michelle Williams.

"...laces together the epic and the elementary, twining the Western – that most operatic of cinematic genres, with its..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

More Beautiful Noise

Western Vinyl owner Brian Sampson: Dr. Label & Mr. Ambient

"...two sides to Brian Sampson. He's the owner/operator of Western Vinyl Records, and he's also Bexar Bexar, an ambient..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

3:10 to Yuma

3:10 to Yuma puts the lie to the presumptive myths that Westerns are dead and remakes are always a bad thing.

"...Alan Tudyk, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts and Vinessa Shaw. Westerns and remakes are two film categories whose reputations have..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Westward Ho!

In-progress or proposed developments for near-western Hill Country rise overnight like so many toxic mushrooms

"...of cement trucks generally move faster in this New Western Frontier, outside the restrictive confines of the city limits,..."

May 28, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

South of Heaven, West of Hell

"...Yoakam. Not reviewed at press time. Dwight Yoakam's elegiac Western -- which he financed, co-wrote, directed, and stars in..."

July 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dead Man

Jarmusch's elegiac, black-and-white meditation is a dream in the form of a Western about the enterprise of America.

"...the director's previous outings. For one thing, it's a Western, which is hardly the milieu fans would have suspected..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gordy

"...singing young daughter (Young) of a traveling country & western singer (played by real country star Stone). Gordy is..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

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