Hostiles Is a Well-Intentioned Downer of a Western
The American West of Hostiles is depressed. Early in the film, Captain Joseph Blocker (Christian Bale) sits down for a nightcap with his second-in-command, Metz (Rory Cochrane), who tells him that he has the melancholia and may have to quit the military. From the look of him: slumped, mumbling, booze-soaked, we have no reason not