Hell or High Water (2016)

In the second of the loose trilogy of Taylor Sheridan-penned films set on the American frontier (a lawless, brutal frontier in Sicario, closed, secretive in Wind River, but here corporatised, forgotten and dying) two brothers commit a series of bank robberies while a pair of sheriffs try to work out who the thieves are and why they are stealing such small amounts of money.

★★★★☆

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Bad Times At The El Royale (2018)

This is The Hateful Eight transported to Richard Nixon- and Vietnam War-era Nevada slash California, except that Quentin Tarantino can sustain pulpy violent nonsense and this movie can't, as you'll see when the terrific slowburn set-up full of surprises ends up with nowhere to go and Chris Hemsworth's cult leader is left conducting protracted interrogations of characters he has no established reason to care about.

★★☆☆☆

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