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Cannes Review: Chris Pine-Jeff Bridges Western 'Hell or High Water' Is a Soulful Outlaw Tale

Brit director David Mackenzie follows his searing 2013 prison drama, Starred Up, with a deep dive into archetypal Americana in Hell or High Water, a modern Western thriller that combines many of the same strengths as that earlier film. Those notably include unsettling violence and textural grit coupled with compassionate insight in a story that observes the behavioral codes of damaged men in a broken world. Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan’s script is sharper in its character-driven crime sp