SummaryFor 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
Western
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
89
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
89
100% Positive
7 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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Sep 25, 2015
100
The film, a hard jewel of beauty and reportage, demands and rewards that second viewing.
Sep 24, 2015
91
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.
Sep 24, 2015
90
A low-key but sharply observed work that benefits from real local flavor and a gift for lyric image making.
Sep 24, 2015
90
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.
Sep 24, 2015
90
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.
Sep 24, 2015
80
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.
Sep 24, 2015
75
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
6.3
63% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Sep 29, 2017
4
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 the time there was a half hour left I just settled in for a slow wind down of a slow startup.
Production Company:
- Acquire Entertainment Group
- Court 31 Productions
- Department of Motion Pictures
Release Date:Sep 25, 2015
Duration:1 h 32 m
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
