2022 · western · mystery
Murder at Yellowstone City
Directed by Richard Gray2h 6m2022
A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.
Our read: Murder at Yellowstone City (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded western · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured western / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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