The Passion Projects of the Modern Western A Year of Underrated Excellence I saw two Westerns in theaters in 2024: Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 in Los Angeles, and The Thicket in New York City. There was one other person in the theatre for Horizon, and I was alone for Thicket. I’m guessing the traditional Western audience assumes The Thicket, with its dwarf hero and lesbian villain, is too gimmicky, and the mainstream audience thinks the traditional epic Horizon will be too old-fashio


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