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What Do Critics Make of Rust, 3 Years After the Shooting?
The western is arriving in select theaters and video on demand on May 2.
“ Rust didn’t choose to echo its own tragedies, but they course through a film that is often compelling and capable, an appropriately unvarnished western tale about guilt, blame, family, law, and devotion,” Nick Newman wrote for Vulture. “The fact is, the discomfiting sight of Baldwin firing off pistols during the obligatory gunfight climax (after which the movie continues for a truly stretched-out denouement) isn’t really worth the long sit; it makes Rust feel ghoulish in addition to dull. “There are uncanny echoes of real life in Rust: That an errant bullet and an accidental shooting death spur the main plot of the movie is remarkable, and the tale features several characters having to deal with the consequences of their violence.
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