Bad Day at Black Rock

BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK gets it. There is not simply a western here, not simply great performances, not simply a clever plot. Instead, there's an understanding of these events and action under a greater scope. There's a dreaminess to the actions. A stranger with one arm enters an old western town. Paranoid, and expecting the worst, the townspeople begin to threaten him, and he coolly goes about his business, speckled with vicious townspeople attacks in between. What's shown here is the dying western, incompatible with the new, odd world which consists of war and scope. Great.
Bad Day at Black Rock: ★★★★