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Topic: Westerns

Viggo Mortensen in "The Dead Don't Hurt" (Marcel Zyskind/Shout! Studios)

How Viggo Mortensen reinvented Westerns

Timothy Olyphant in "Justified: City Primeval" (FX)

That complicated "Justified" ending

Writer Cormac McCarthy attends the premiere of "The Road" at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on November 16, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by (Jim Spellman/WireImage/Getty Images)

Cormac McCarthy didn't write Westerns

Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton in "1923" (James Minchin III/Paramount+)

"Yellowstone's" grim prequel "1923"

Melanie McFarland

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Kevin Costner in "Yellowstone" (Paramount Network)

"Yellowstone": What is a Western now?

Melanie McFarland

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone;" Ian McShane as Al Swearengen in "Deadwood: The Movie" (Buena Vista Pictures/Warrick Page/HBO)

In Deadwood & Tombstone, language lives

Heath Ledger as The Joker in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

superhero classics of tomorrow

Jeff Bridges in "Hell or High Water" (CBS FIlms)

Salon interview: Jeff Bridges

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(Netflix)

Adam Sandler's never funny

Jamie Foxx in "Django Unchained" (The Weinstein Company)

Movies as magnifying glass

"American Sniper" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

"American Sniper," cowboy film

Alex Trimble Young

Hilary Swank in "The Homesman" (Roadside Attractions)

Tommy Lee Jones' new classic

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(Disney)

"Lone Ranger" is actually good

A bitter divorce thriller

Delusion of the American Dream

Associated Press

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Bill Paxton in "Hatfields & McCoys"

No heroes, no humor

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