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Westerns

  1. movie review
    The Great Walter Hill Returns to the West, for Better and for WorseThe movie’s not perfect, but it’s well worth watching to see what a master filmmaker can do with limited resources.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. vulture lists
    The 50 Greatest Western Movies Ever MadeHow does The Power of the Dog fit into the canon?
    By Keith Phipps
  3. chat room
    Zazie Beetz on Stagecoach Mary, Coping with Burnout, and Going Back to AtlantaThe Emmy-nominated actress on what she learned from Regina King and the Atlanta cast’s “24/7” group text.
    By Kellee Terrell
  4. prequels
    Yeehaw, Yellowstone Is Getting a PrequelY: 1883 will be a Dutton family origin story, and it will stream on Paramount+.
    By Rebecca Alter
  5. movie review
    Netflix’s The Harder They Fall Is a Mess, But It’s a Fun MessThis star-studded, stylized Western may not hang together, but it has an infectious energy all its own.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  6. movie review
    If You Like Westerns, You’ll Want to See Old HenryTim Blake Nelson reminds us that he’s one of the best we’ve got.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  7. movie review
    Let Nicolas Cage Guide You Through the Madness of Prisoners of the GhostlandIn 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
  8. movie review
    Clint Eastwood’s Lovely, Awkward Cry Macho Is As Fragile As Its 91-Year-Old StarThe picture doesn’t always work, but it works when it has to.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. home on the cage
    Yeehaw, Nicolas Cage Is Making His First WesternBecause Prisoners of the Ghostland is more of a hybrid, really.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. movie review
    The Power of the Dog and Jane Campion’s Triumphant ReturnHer new Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst may be one of her greatest films.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. trailer mix
    Clint Eastwood Used to Be a Lot of Things in the Cry Macho TrailerPremiering September 17.
    By Bethy Squires
  12. movie review
    The Gorgeous, Moving News of the World Features Tom Hanks at His BestA Western from the director of Captain Phillips and The Bourne Ultimatum, if you can believe that.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. movie review
    Kevin Costner and Diane Lane Give the Elegiac Let Him Go Its PowerAnd then a fire-breathing Lesley Manville steals it from them.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  14. movie review
    For All Its Bleakness, You Can’t Stop Watching Nia DaCosta’s Little WoodsThis 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
  15. movies
    A Look at the Coen Brothers’ Long-standing Obsession With the WesternThe 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
  16. movie review
    In The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the Coens Take Old Westerns to a New FrontierThis might be their bleakest work of all, and one of their richest.
    By David Edelstein
  17. Hostiles Is a Well-Intentioned Downer of a WesternChristian Bale and Rosamund Pike star in this slog, which still doesn’t do right by its native characters.
    By Emily Yoshida
  18. 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
  19. the golden age of television
    Coen Brothers Entering a New (for Them) Frontier: Directing a TV SeriesThe Ballad of Buster Scruggs will be a limited-series Western.
    By Tolly Wright
  20. new frontiers
    Kevin Costner Wants to Make a 10-Hour WesternHe’s cool with it being a TV series, too.
    By Tolly Wright
  21. obits
    Wyatt Earp Actor Hugh O’Brian Dead at 91O’Brian played the gunfighter in ABC’s The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.
    By Nate Jones
  22. westward no!
    Hell or High Water and the West’s Broken PromiseNew takes on “the West” depict a frontier in foreclosure.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  23. trailer mix
    See Natalie Portman in Jane Got a Gun TrailerThis movie almost never happened.
    By Nate Jones
  24. the industry
    Casey Affleck and Joaquin Phoenix Making WesternFar Bright Star tells the story of a failed mission to capture Sancho Panza.
    By Nate Jones
  25. works in progress
    Quentin Tarantino Hasn’t Given Up on The Hateful Eight After AllHe did a staged reading of the leaked script in L.A.
    By Delia Paunescu
  26. betrayals
    Quentin Tarantino Won’t Make Hateful Eight After Script LeakHe’s narrowed down the suspects.
    By Halle Kiefer
  27. wicky wild wild west
    FX Developing Western Miniseries DesperadoesCharacters may or may not ride fences, come to their senses.
    By Halle Kiefer
  28. rabbit hole
    A Primer to All Django Unchained’s ReferencesQT likes to quote pop culture in his films. A lot.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  29. Seth MacFarlane to Direct and Star in His First WesternHot 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
  30. reboots
    David Mamet Reviving Have Gun — Will TravelWesterns, you guys.
    By Margaret Lyons