Slow West (8/10): A revisionist and inventive Western with an outstanding cast.

“A jack rabbit in a den of wolves.“
 

After their collaboration together in two short films, John Maclean and Michael Fassbender team up for the director’s feature debut in this originally fresh take on the Western genre. In Slow West we get a different glimpse of the West, avoiding the typical Americana style confrontation between cowboys and indians. Here we are introduced to a world where

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Young Ones (6/10): It establishes an interesting futuristic setting, but lacks character development.

"Pray for rain.”


Gwyneth Paltrow’s younger brother, Jake, introduces us to a dystopian future where water is scarce  in Young Ones, his sophomore feature film. The film has style and it is also gorgeous to look at the empty vast dry land (filmed in South Africa, but taking place in an undisclosed American town), but unfortunately the characters did lack some development. This could well be

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