Rust

Western

Available on VOD: TBA Q4 2025

Director: Joel Souza

Cast: Alec Baldwin (The Departed, It's Complicated, BlacKkKlansman), Travis Fimmel (Dune - Prophecy, Kandahar), Frances Fisher (Titanic, Unforgiven), Patrick Scott McDermott (Goosebumps)

A 13-year-old boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents’ deaths in 1880s Kansas, goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher. As they head for New Mexico and the border, they are pursued by Woody Helm, US Marshal, sworn to bring them to justice, and by Fenton “Preacher” Lang, a brutal and utterly ruthless bounty hunter…

• Film-authority.com: The striking appearance of the film is to be commended, with the dark pastoral-Gothic look of Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Walter Hill’s The Long Riders, or even Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider; long coats, sparse landscapes, tough times in America. Brutal, unsparing and unsentimental, Rust isn’t an easy film to watch.
• Telegraph.co.uk:  Ravishingly captured.
• Thetimes.com: What a strange, gloomy and deeply beautiful film this is, a testament to Halyna Hutchins’s talent.
• Independent.ie: Steadily performed and beautifully photographed, it’s a western of the dusty, old-school variety that, though marred by tragedy, deserves a look-in.
• Thecanadiancrew.com: he New Mexico vistas and late 1800s recreations are stellar. The muted tones add to murky morals at play. Alec Baldwin is excellent in this movie. Back doing drama after a long stint in comedy, game shows, and reality television, Baldwin does the slipping of the mask to perfection.
• Latimes.com: A testament to lives cut short, “Rust” is beautifully filmed and all the sadder for it.
• Sarahgvincentviews.com: Every exterior scene is like an answered prayer and elevates the movie.
• Collider.com: Complimenting this authentic look are some really great performances from the cast. This isn't some cute little cowboy village, but a nasty, unfair chapter of American history that offers no mercy, not even to children.
• Movieweb.com: Rust is a solid Western that's far more artistic, layered, and complex than its unfortunate production problems.