2025 · crime · western · comedy
Americana
Directed by Tony Tost1h 47m2025
After a rare Native American artifact falls onto the black market, a shy waitress with big dreams teams up with a lovelorn military veteran to gain possession of it, putting them in the crosshairs of a ruthless criminal working on behalf of a Western antiquities dealer.
Our read: Americana (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal crime · western · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured crime / western, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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