News Summary

• The western genre has carved out Hollywood's most distinctive niche through visual grandeur and sweeping, wide-angle frontier shots.
• Killers of the Flower Moon explores themes of oil- and land-based wealth, greed, alongside indigenous displacement in 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma.
• Hostiles follows Christian Bale's Captain Joseph Blocker as he reluctantly escorts a dying Cheyenne chief and his family across dangerous territory.
• Hell or High Water proves that neo-western movies do not need horses and six-shooters to tell a compelling story.