Western

Name: Western
Genre: Western, Documentary
Released: September 25, 2015
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 89

2015

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| Release Date: September 25, 2015 | Not Rated

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.

Director: Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross

Genre(s): Western, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Sep 25, 2015

The film, a hard jewel of beauty and reportage, demands and rewards that second viewing. Read full review

The Playlist Katie Walsh

Sep 24, 2015

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. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Sep 24, 2015

A low-key but sharply observed work that benefits from real local flavor and a gift for lyric image making. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Sep 24, 2015

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. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Sep 24, 2015

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. Read full review

Daniel M. Gold

Sep 24, 2015

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. Read full review

Christopher Gray

Sep 24, 2015

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. Read full review

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Eekzoh

Sep 29, 2017

For the life of me I don't understand how this could possibly get the score that it does. I didn't actually -dislike- it, but I didn't find much to like either. Abso-stinking-lutely almost nothing happened, either good or ill. I kept waiting and waiting but it was so hands off that by theFor the life of me I don't understand how this could possibly get the score that it does. I didn't actually -dislike- it, but I didn't find much to like either. Abso-stinking-lutely almost nothing happened, either good or ill. I kept waiting and waiting but it was so hands off that by the time there was a half hour left I just settled in for a slow wind down of a slow startup.… Expand

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