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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

1/15/2008

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

This is a smart update of the 1957 western of the same name. The core remains the same, but everything's a little less mannered -- a little more believably mean.

Just as in the original, a rancher who's in serious need of cash agrees to help transport an infamous gang leader to the train that will take him to prison. The changes that both men undergo make perfect sense and seem earned rather than scripted.

I will say that Ben Foster should get himself a nice romantic comedy -- he's really starting to skeeve me out.

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