2021 · western · action · crime
Apache Junction
Directed by Justin Lee1h 34m2021
Apache Junction is an outpost of lawlessness, a haven for thieves and cold-blooded killers. After big-city reporter Annabelle Angel arrives to write an article on the town, she becomes a target when notorious gunslinger Jericho Ford comes to her aid. Now Annabelle must entrust her future to a man with a deadly past, as Jericho heads toward a tense showdown.
Our read: Apache Junction (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded western · action · crime entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured western / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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