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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Wind River (2017)

Don't be turned off by the utter bleakness of the two previous Taylor Sheridan-penned movies (Sicario and Hell Or High Water, both also set on the American frontier) because this third suspense thriller of the loosely held together trilogy while bleak has a heart and a social conscience, telling a mystery of a woman's body found in the snow on a Native American reserve, and the only dissatisfaction you'll have as you come out of the cinema is that the suspense and the social commentary isn't sustained for longer beyond a ludicrous Reservoir Dogs finale that surely doesn't solve anyone's problems.

★★★★☆

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