Outlaws and Angels

10/23/2022

**_Interesting Western brought down by tedious overlength and disgusting vileness_** In the New Mexico Territory, a gang of bank robbers holds up at the parsonage of a minister & his family as a posse tries to catch up with them. Even if the thugs make it to Mexico, who will survive? "Outlaws and Angels” (2016) is cut from the same cloth as Tarantino Westerns “Django Unchained” (2012) and “The Hateful Eight” (2015), but with even less of a budget than “Bone Tomahawk” (2015), amazingly only costing $1,150,000. I say “amazingly” because the production values are quite good. In other words, the writer/director knew what he was doing. The people look and talk like folks living in the challenging desert wilderness of the Old West, which harkens back to the ugly depiction of the Old We