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- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
Summary For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, TX, from Piedras Negras, MX, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life.
Directed By: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
- 2015
- Not Rated
- Netflix
- 1 h 32 m
Western
89
6.7
Summary For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, TX, from Piedras Negras, MX, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life.
Directed By: Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
89
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
89
100% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The film, a hard jewel of beauty and reportage, demands and rewards that second viewing.
In Western, the filmmaking philosophy remains the same, but the subject is new and different, and the storytelling is deeper, nuanced, and honed by experience.
A low-key but sharply observed work that benefits from real local flavor and a gift for lyric image making.
As a dreamy yet concrete evocation of lives beset by unseen anxieties and dwindling resources, Western has a mythic quality in keeping with its totemic title.
The film’s bracing ground-level truths, by turns hopeful and despairing, challenge Beltway anxieties about the “porousness” of the border and shake up preconceived notions about Americans’ relationships with their southern neighbors.
With its evocative landscapes and its non-narrative, cinéma vérité style, Western is a layered, atmospheric chronicle of living traditions like bullfights and rodeos, mariachi bands and Texas two-steps. Yet the film also records the tremors of change.
After the film's early optimism and speculative midsection, Western struggles to manage all the rich dramatic irony of its final half hour, perched uneasily between plot and stasis.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
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13% Mixed
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20% Negative
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3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
13% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
20% Negative
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Production Company
Acquire Entertainment Group,
Court 31 Productions,
Department of Motion Pictures
Release Date Sep 25, 2015
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website
http://www.rossbros.net/
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
