Scott Cooper’s Antlers starts off with an onscreen text prologue about indigenous people and their land, making it seem like it’s going to be a sort of companion piece to Cooper’s Hostiles, another well-meaning but painfully superficial and self-satisfied story...
Scott Cooper’s Hostiles opens with a scene of bracing brutality in which a family of late-1800s plains settlers is slaughtered by a group of Comanche. Immediately following that is a scene in which a group of U.S. soldiers laugh and...