Saddle up for movie night.
These films often feature long, arduous journeys across the treacherous terrain, peppered with shootouts and robberies.
But so many of the genres classics also involve intimate moments indoors that almost feel like stage plays.
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Another is about death itself and the portentous ride to the other side.
All the while each vignette feels simultaneously familiar and alien, at once classically old-fashioned and brazenly unorthodox.
Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘The Power of the Dog’.KIRSTY GRIFFIN/NETFLIX
After all,Concrete Cowboyisnt set in the great wide open of the American frontier.
Its not a period piece, either.
ButConcrete Cowboys Western bonafides go further than simply having characters riding on horseback.
Regina King, Idris Elba, and LaKeith Stanfield in ‘The Harder They Fall’.David Lee/Netflix
The two films would make a nifty double feature for the hats as much as the high adventure.
Who are they joining forces against?
A corrupt sheriff, of course.
Tim Roth, Kurt Russell, and Jennifer Jason Leigh in ‘The Hateful Eight’.Andrew Cooper/The Weinstein Company
The only gripe here?
That the filmmaker could have expanded Silva and Jakes story into feature length.
Tim Blake Nelson in ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’.Netflix
Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins in ‘Legends of the Fall’.Everett Collection
Idris Elba in ‘Concrete Cowboy’.Aaron Ricketts/NETFLIX
Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn, and Kevin Kline in ‘Silverado’.Columbia/courtesy Everett
Riz Ahmed and Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘The Sisters Brothers’.Magali Bragard / Annapurna Pictures
