by Andrew WrightThe way the West was won...
The Western has long been a load-bearing genre, with its trademark wide open spaces and lonesome cowboys providing a tantalizing framework for a wide array of dark revisionist takes. Still, there’s weighty, and then there’s ponderous. Hostiles, the latest film from writer/director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass), unfortunately falls into the latter category, telling a fiercely nihilistic tale that never quite reaches its intended lev
The Western has long been a load-bearing genre, with its trademark wide open spaces and lonesome cowboys providing a tantalizing framework for a wide array of dark revisionist takes. Still, there’s weighty, and then there’s ponderous. Hostiles, the latest film from writer/director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Black Mass), unfortunately falls into the latter category, telling a fiercely nihilistic tale that never quite reaches its intended lev
