2023 · action · drama · western
The Old Way
Directed by Brett Donowho1h 35m2023
An old gunslinger and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he killed years ago arrives to take his revenge.
Our read: The Old Way (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · drama · western entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- intimate
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