On the surface it's a gorgeous, hardscrabble Western, awash in stark landscapes, grubby faces, bar fights and banditry. But scratch away the grime, and you expose the pure, glitzy soap opera beneath.

This high-anxiety pandemic Western wants to impress you by reproducing the chaos, disinformation, and combativeness of 2020 — but it's less satire than a star-filled documentary reenactment.

Filmmaker Ari Aster, who wrote and directed Midsommar and Hereditary, returns to theaters this weekend with a conspiracy-laden story set in the spring of 2020.

Mel Brooks' satirical Western got mixed reviews when it opened in February 1974, but it became the year's biggest box office hit.

As a Black TV critic who loves Westerns, Eric Deggans really wanted to like this show. But he found the first four episodes were focused on being a Modern Western Epic, at the expense of Reeves' story