Americana
By Ben Wasserman August 14, 2025
A decent first-time effort that takes on more ideas than it can fully explore.
A decent first-time effort that takes on more ideas than it can fully explore.
A smug, tongue-out gesture at sensitive topics or a sharp-eyed tapestry of American dysfunction?
Cage brings his trademark intensity to the role, albeit quiet and grizzled, to this effortlessly intense and beautiful looking western.
Pedro Almodóvar’s 31-minute Western-cum-queer-love-story is on a double-bill with The Human Voice.
Set on the Andean plateau, Utama takes the conventions of the Western genre in a different direction.
Sometimes trusting the tropes of the genre and simply telling a good, involving story is enough. This western understands this and spins its tale with confidence and style.
An innovative and fresh work to Brazilian cinema as well as the many genres that the movie digests, and it’s one of the best and most unique approaches to the western in recent years.