Lone Star

Like all the best Westerns, this is at once a morality play about individual responsibility and a challenging essay about American history.

All of these events unfold so naturally and absorbingly that all we can do is simply follow along.

In what is easily his most accomplished film to date, Sayles aims to show how authority uses history to construct the borders that separate countries, communities and individuals.

It's not a comeback on a John Travolta scale, but Kris Kristofferson makes an awfully good bad guy in Lone Star...