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‘Rust’ Review: After Tragedy, It's a By-the-Numbers Western With a Few Surprises

Well, it finally happened. It took two years to get the movie in the can, and almost as long again to get it finished and ready to go. For a long time, people speculated that it would never see the ...
Yahoo

‘Rust’ Review: The Specter of a Real-Life Death Haunts This Tragic Western

It’s nearly impossible to critique a film like Joel Souza’s western “Rust” because, in many respects, the film itself feels irrelevant. No matter how “Rust” turned out the inescapable truth is that on ...
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‘Rust’ Review: Defined by Tragedy, Alec Baldwin’s Cursed Western Offers Halyna Hutchins’ Story a Small but Necessary Sense of Closure

When cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was inadvertently shot and killed by a live round on the set of “Rust” in October of 2021, it seemed unfathomable to me that production would ever be completed — ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Leads a Competent but Uninspired Western Haunted by Death and Scandal

More than four years after a fatal on-set shooting, Joel Souza's feature about a misanthropic fugitive on the run with his grandson lands in theaters and on VOD. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic ...
Variety

‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Plays a Cold Outlaw With a Heart of Gold in a Buddy-Movie Western That Lopes Along More Than It Takes Wing

With its on-set tragedy in the distance, does "Rust" justify its existence? Yes, but that doesn't mean it's an especially good movie. Now that “Rust” has been completed and is finally being released ...
The New York Times

‘Rust’ Review: It’s a Hard Watch

During every scene of this western, I couldn’t stop thinking about the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on set in an entirely preventable tragedy. By Manohla Dargis When you ...