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  • "It matches it in terms of drama and shock," says Joelle Carter, who plays plucky widow Ava on the gripping neo-Western.

    Justified Prepares for a Showdown in Harlan County 2011

  • In this week's movie releases, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt evade mysterious agents in "The Adjustment Bureau," Topher Grace harkens back to the 1980s in "Take Me Home Tonight" and Johnny Depp is pure neo-Western genius in the animated flick "Rango."

    New movies: 'The Adjustment Bureau,' 'Take Me Home Tonight' 2011

  • And he brings all that protean talent to bear on Rango, this ingenious neo-Western's protagonist who isn't just chameleon-like but a chameleon, period.

    New movies: 'The Adjustment Bureau,' 'Take Me Home Tonight' 2011

  • I am a big fan of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and of his films, one of my favourites being the neo-Western Dead Man.

    Strange Attractor » 2006 » December 2009

  • It's a classic Western plot, but I was fearful enough that this was going to be some kind of dark, psychotic, neo-Western that I was comforted by the traditional aspects of it.

    Off-Topic: Appaloosa (2008) Michael May 2008

  • July 5 3:10 to Yuma, a neo-Western starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale;

    Buzzine » McGowan Takes on Hosting Duties 2008

  • And he brings all that protean talent to bear on Rango, this ingenious neo-Western's protagonist who isn't just chameleon-like but a chameleon, period.

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2011

  • In this week's movie releases, Matt Damon and Emily Blunt evade mysterious agents in "The Adjustment Bureau," Topher Grace harkens back to the 1980s in "Take Me Home Tonight" and Johnny Depp is pure neo-Western genius in the animated flick "Rango."

    Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post 2011

  • Gran Torino as a Western (or, rather, neo-Western), and not simply because it includes a few weapons-drawn standoffs and vicious cross-cultural tensions.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Updates, 9 / 3: "Stirring, nuanced and elegaic, Andrew Dominik's retelling of Jesse James's legend is equal parts a mentor-acolyte love story, a melancholy neo-Western and a tragedy of betrayal with Biblical echoes," writes

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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