Lone Star

Like all the best Westerns, this is at once a morality play about individual responsibility and a challenging essay about American history.

John Sayles’s powerful crime drama is an extraordinary relic of 90s film-making.

All of these events unfold so naturally and absorbingly that all we can do is simply follow along.

Sayles' panorama of the border reveals that its truths lie not so much in what it keeps apart but what it brings together.

In what is easily his most accomplished film to date, Sayles aims to show how authority uses history to construct the borders that separate countries, communities and individuals.