Some will likely find Harris’s character-study western too slow and ponderous, and in a sense it is (it feels much longer than it’s running time, which I was surprised is less than two hours). Yet, Harris, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time since 2000’s Pollock, has a clear vision for the material and refuses to sacrifice its subtle underpinnings for easy thrills or simple reductionism. Through his lens we see the Old West in typical movie terms as the stark terrain in which moral warfare is waged for the future of the land, yet we also see it as a place that draws all kinds of conflicted souls whose lives don’t play out on the straight and narrow, however much we may want them to. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)