Netflix had all but given up on the Western when they surprise-dropped the Coen Brothers' brilliant anthology 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.' Gone are the types of classic Western films you'll find on our list of the 100 best Westerns of all time. But if you broaden the description to include neo-Westerns like 'No Country for Old Men,' there are some great movies available.
Martial arts cinema’s foundation is built on history both richly composed and impeccably choreographed: Tsui Hark, King Hu, Zhang Yimou and Lau Kar-leung, for instance, value beauty in the construction of their films as much as they prize discipline and perfection in the filming of fight sequences.—Singapore’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Language Film—may not quite be a classic in the making, but it is a worthy update based on blueprints derived from both the martial arts and western genres.
Conventional wisdom suggests that it’s a bad idea to openly defy tyrants with more power than you, so the gang keeps it on the down low for as long as they can until, inevitably, their cover’s blown and they’re forced to fight in the open. Whatlacks in originality it makes up for in spirit. There’s a verve in Wiluan’s direction, a sense of joy shaping his approach to the tried and true familial vengeance hook.
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