In another timeline, Joel Souza’s Rust would come and go with mild fanfare and maybe some critical praise. The film follows a 13 year-old boy (Patrick Scott McDermott) who runs from the law — he’s ...
Watching “Rust,” it’s easy to be rattled by the gunshots. Being a Western drama, naturally there's plenty of gunfights, showdowns and old-school cowboy justice. But this is also a movie haunted by one ...
Luna Guthrie is a Movie Features Editor for Collider, writer and film critic. She began as a writer for Collider in 2021 and joined the editorial team in 2024. She has a bachelor's degree in ...
Rust is certainly one independently made movie that doesn’t need publicity. The Western starring Alec Baldwin, who also came up with the story and serves as a producer, was hit by tragedy during ...
"Rust" is impossible to separate from the context of its production, and the movie doesn't pretend otherwise. When cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was inadvertently shot and killed by a live round on ...
Ideally, we like to watch movies in a state of willful ignorance regarding their making, even if the whole machinery of selling and promoting a movie seems to defy that. But taking in the 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 ...
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 ...