Open Range

"...a long time. But given the small number of Westerns churned out these days, that statement is close to..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let the Corpses Tan

Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways

"...to the blood-soaked nihilism of the most dust-encrusted spaghetti Westerns (like Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse) as it..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Good, the Bad, the Weird

This rollicking South Korean film mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.

"...Bad, the Weird is a showstopping take on spaghetti Westerns (which would make it a Shin Ramyun Western, I..."

April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Proposition

The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.

"...Huston, and Robert Aldrich – American filmmakers who made Westerns about strong-willed men and the individualized codes by which..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hi-Lo Country

"...stunning visual dimensions we have come to expect in Westerns. Big Boy and Pete (Crudup) meet up shortly before..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Last Man Standing

"...director Walter Hill completes a trilogy of narration-driven revisionist Westerns, a troika of films that includes 1993's historical epic..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Frank and Jesse

"...the new breed of dark and brooding new wave westerns that have followed in the wake of Unforgiven. However,..."

Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Brian Baker

Heroic Trio II: The Executioners

"...Kong version of one of those low-budget futuristic spaghetti westerns: the Not-So-Magnificent Three...."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wyatt Earp

"...metaphor for the taming of the American West (few Westerns are as laden with mythic pretensions as this one)..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

"...Mandel script, it's enough to make you give up westerns altogether. Director Weiland has a sure hand in the..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lightning Jack

"...waste of time, a Western for people that hate Westerns. Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee) is Lightning Jack Kane, an..."

March 18, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tombstone

"...successfully hacks it apart. But if you really love Westerns, despite its faults, it's got to be recommended for..."

Dec. 31, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Ballad of Little Jo

"...involving. Director Greenwald's familiarity and love for the classic Westerns are evident and one wishes that she had followed..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Luv Doc: Learning To Dance

If Westerns have taught us anything, it's that dancing isn't fun - especially when someone is shooting at your feet.

"...dance - metaphorically at least, if not literally. If Westerns have taught us anything, dancing isn’t always fun –..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Column by The Luv Doc

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

They Went West

Back in the saddle with a faded genre's favorite stars

"...individual films. All of them were in many excellent Westerns, as well as many that weren't. It would be..."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

The Pale Door

Witches versus cowboys in the weird, weird West

"...and gore is not a combination found in many Westerns, but perhaps that says more about the genre than..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Aiming for the Big Kill

Scott Martin on the inaccurate West in his new gunslinger flick

"...Scott Martin: I love Westerns. I've loved Westerns my entire life, old ones and..."

Oct. 18, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hold the Dark

Humanity's animal instincts exposed in the Alaskan wilderness

"...incredibly evocative film and one of the most evocative neo-Westerns of the past decade...."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

TV Eye

Is the old genre new again with Deadwood, a gritty, decidedly unromantic look at how the West was won?

"...My mother loved Westerns. She grew up watching cowboy heroes like Tom Mix,..."

March 19, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Outlaw

Alex Cox, still shooting film, and the finger, after all these years

"...film students, Cox, a native Briton, is enamored of Westerns, particularly spaghetti Westerns. Unlike most of them, he can..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Page Two: Winning the West

Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order

"...The John Ford-directed Westerns, frequently starring Wayne, that I watched growing up proved..."

June 12, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Cars and Speed and Flight

Just prior to his appearance at SXSW Film for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talks about a career in film.

"...offered us the chance to do a pair of Westerns in Utah [Ride in the Whirlwind, 1965; The Shooting,..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection

"...SAM PECKINPAH'S LEGENDARY WESTERNS COLLECTION..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

The Wild Bunch

"...Yes, there were the bloody shootouts in Leone's spaghetti westerns, and there was the bank teller's getting shot in..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Feature by Charles Ramirez Berg

The Summer Revival Spirit

Can I Get a Witness?

"...The Westerns made in the Fifties are among the most complex..."

June 12, 1998 Screens Feature

Cowboys and Controversy

Kyle Henry and the Texas Documentary Tour

"...so I sort of knew what all those classic Westerns were up to, and the revisionist Westerns that were..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...in a very intense human drama. Where Anthony Mann's Westerns drew their resonance from the contrast between the enormity..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

El Cid

"...Story, The Furies), he is best remembered for his Westerns (Winchester 73, Man from Laramie, Man of the West,..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Viggo Mortensen Looks Homeward in The Dead Don’t Hurt

How his Western centers women’s struggles over men’s wars

"...AC: Westerns don’t often reflect the reality of the West, which..."

May 30, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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