2013 · western · thriller · music
Sweetwater
Directed by Logan Miller1h 36m2013
In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.
Our read: Sweetwater (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded western · thriller · music entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured western / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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