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This big-screen remake of the Western TV series has poker-playing grifter Bret Maverick trying to wrangle a wad of cash to enter a big tournament. Watch trailers & learn more.
Jan 27, 2024 · Maverick is a Western film with comedic timing and memorable characters, making it enjoyable for just about everyone. Jodie Foster steals the show with her portrayal of Annabelle Bransford, a...
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- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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- Back to The Future Part III
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- The Highwaymen
- The Quick and The Dead
A recent spin on the Western is co-screenwriter and director Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall, a Netflix original featuring a historically based, all-Black outlaw gang and a fierce cast that includes Oscar winner Regina King, Oscar nominees Idris Elba andLakeith Stanfield, plusZazie Beetz andJonathan Majors.
Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen walk a sublime line between comedy and tragedy in this Netflix original anthology Western. Six short films include the surreal musical of the title (starring Tim Blake Nelson), an unlikely romance on the Oregon trail, and an ominous stagecoach journey with a satisfying twist. Related: 13 Classic Clint Eastwood M...
Family Guy's creator Seth MacFarlane wrote, directed and starred in this comedic western that highlights all the ways one could die in the wild west. MacFarlane plays a cowardly frontiersman who is forced to take on Neil Patrick Harris's outlaw because he falls in love with Harris' wife (played by Charlize Theron). Amanda Seyfried and Liam Neesonal...
Inspired by the little-known, century-long culture of Black horseback riding in inner city Philadelphia, Ricky Staub’s neo-Western tells the unforgettable story of a father (the always stellar Idris Elba) who tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage son (Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things) by bringing him into the urban riding community.
Rango is one of those rare animated movies not from Dreamworks or Pixar. The Nickelodeon film wowed audiences back in 2011, so much so that it snagged the Oscar for best animated film, beating out the likes of Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss in Boots. It focuses on a pet chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) who is thrust into the lawless west.
Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd star in Robert Zemeckis' special effects-heavy but character-focused sci-fi comedy smash. The original Back to the Futurespawned a beloved franchise, and while the first two movies involve traveling back to the 1950s and into the future, the third film in the trilogy sends Marty and Doc back to the wild wild wes...
A haunting neo-Western Netflix original from low-budget thriller master Jeremy Saulnier, Hold the Dark takes viewers to a remote Alaskan village, where an animal expert (Jeffrey Wright) has been summoned to track a child-stealing wolf. The longer he stays in town, the deeper and more violent its mysteries become.
The rare Western to sweep awards season, Jane Campion's stunning drama stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank, a cruel cattle rancher trying to keep macho cowboy traditions alive in 1920s Montana. When his kind brother George marries widow Rose (Kirsten Dunst), bringing her sensitive teenage son, Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee), into the family, Phil ...
John Lee Hancock's true crime thriller for Netflix has a tantalizing premise indeed: It's the story of the 1930s Bonnie and Clyde manhunt, from the perspective of law enforcement. Kevin Costner co-stars with Woody Harrelson, both as Texas Rangers. The Highwaymen is surely not as gripping as Bonnie & Clyde (few films are), but it's slick, well-acted...
If you were thinking to yourself, "Gosh, I wish there was a movie that mixed The Hunger Games, March Madness and Bonanza," then you're in luck. This '90s Western romp watches a cast jam-packed with celebs battle each other in a series of quick-draw duels to see who will take home bragging rights and a large pile of cash. Unfortunately, the consolat...
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Maverick is a 1994 American Western comedy film directed by Richard Donner, written by William Goldman, and starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner.
Aug 23, 2024 · The debut movie by director Roderick MacKay is an Australian western set in the late 19th century with an impressively diverse cast and an interesting take on a well-worn story.
- Carrie Marshall
May 20, 1994 · Alternately a celebration and sendup of cowboy conventions, the movie lingers over a stunning Western landscape only to be spurred on by the principals' inexhaustible supply of escapades. The burr under the saddle: There's just too much of everything.
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I found Maverick charming and funny with a real love of Western tropes. Iconic American director Richard Donner's revisionist Western comedy Maverick (1994) is quite entertaining and...
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