It is not easy to get a Western made these days, particularly one that has serious ideas. Fortunately, writer-director Scott Cooper found financing for Hostiles, a film with much more on its mind than ...

Scott Cooper’s new film Hostiles presents the wild west as a depressing, violent, sexist and racist place where everything sucks. It’s easy to believe but not very interesting to watch. Christian Bale ...

In some respects a timely rumination on healing and bridging divisions, “Hostiles” is a sturdy but unspectacular western, as old adversaries shed animosities through the shared ordeal of a ...