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\n A man in a hat and suit looking off-camera pensively.Image via Sundance<\/p>\n
\n A man in a hat and suit looking off-camera pensively.Image via Sundance<\/p>\n
With only a couple of major movies to his credit in the last decade or so, Russell Crowe<\/a> has been busy starring in small-scale projects that have proven to be rather hit-or-miss. Some of them have exceeded box-office expectations, while others have found success on the home-video market. Several others have been lost in the ether. With the crime drama movie The Get Out currently topping the domestic Paramount+ leaderboard<\/a> and the psychological thriller Unabomber<\/a> slated for release on Netflix on September 25, this is turning out to be an eventful month for the Oscar-winning Crowe. What’s making the month sweeter is the release of a new Western that also happens to be the best-reviewed movie Crowe has starred in since 1999.<\/p>\n Crowe has experience with the Western genre, which has been having something of a resurgence in the last two years. In 1995, Crowe played a memorable role in Sam Raimi<\/a>‘s underrated revisionist Western The Quick and the Dead<\/a>. Then, in 2007, he starred alongside Christian Bale<\/a> in the acclaimed Western remake 3:10 to Yuma<\/a>, directed by James Mangold<\/a>. His co-star in the new Western is Ethan Hawke<\/a>, who is no stranger to the genre either. Hawke starred alongside John Travolta<\/a> in the little-seen movie In a Valley of Violence<\/a>, directed by Ti West<\/a> and released in 2016. He was also a part of the ensemble of Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven<\/a> remake. In 2020, Hawke starred in the Showtime limited series The Good Lord and Bird<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tCollider Exclusive \u00b7 8 Questions \u00b7 2 Minutes \t\t\t\tPick your name, your gun, your horse and how you spend a night in town, and we will tell you which legend of the Old West you would have been. Four icons are waiting at the end of this: the stranger who never gives his name, the gambler who would die for a friend, the lawman who never wanted the badge, and the girl nobody has ever talked out of anything.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udeacNo Name(Dollars Trilogy)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udccfDoc Holliday(Tombstone)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\u2b50Wyatt Earp(Tombstone)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udc0eMattie Ross(True Grit)\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tFIND YOUR ICON \u2192\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n 01<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tThe town is about to learn your name. What do they call you? \n\t\t\t\tAThey never do find it out, so the stranger will have to do. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 02<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhat are you carrying? \n\t\t\t\tAOne revolver I have had for years and have never once talked about. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 03<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhat are you riding? \n\t\t\t\tASomething plain that nobody in town would look at twice. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 04<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tYou have got one evening in town. How does it go? \n\t\t\t\tAOne drink at the far end of the bar with my back to the wall. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 05<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tA stranger offers you money for a job that sounds like trouble. \n\t\t\t\tAI ask how much, and then I ask for a good deal more than that. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 06<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tSomebody is waiting for you in the street. What does the town see? \n\t\t\t\tASomebody walking out very slowly who has not said a single word. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 07<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tWhat is the one thing you will not do out here? \n\t\t\t\tAExplain myself to somebody who has not earned an explanation. NEXT QUESTION \u2192<\/p>\n 08<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tThe job is finished. Where does the story leave you? \n\t\t\t\tAOn a ridge somewhere, riding away, without saying goodbye to anybody. REVEAL MY ICON \u2192<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tThe Dust Has Settled Four icons and four completely different ways of walking into trouble. \t\t\t\t\t\tThe Dollars Trilogy \u00b7 1964\u20131966\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThe Man With No Name<\/p>\n You have never explained yourself and you have never needed to, \t\t\t\t\t\t\tEastwood built the character out of everything he refused to do, stripping away the \t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou keep your own counsel, and while other people occasionally find that unnerving, you \t\t\t\t\t\tDoc Holliday \u00b7 Tombstone \u00b7 1993\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tDoc Holliday<\/p>\n You are the funniest person in most rooms and the most loyal \t\t\t\t\t\t\tDoc has no real reason to be in this fight beyond the fact that his friend is in it, \t\t\t\t\t\tWyatt Earp \u00b7 Tombstone \u00b7 1993\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tWyatt Earp<\/p>\n You never wanted this job, and you took it anyway because the \t\t\t\t\t\t\tEarp is the reluctant authority figure, a man who came to town specifically to be left \t\t\t\t\t\tMattie Ross \u00b7 True Grit \u00b7 1969 & 2010\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tMattie Ross<\/p>\n Nobody has ever successfully talked you out of something you had \t\t\t\t\t\t\tMattie is the most relentless character in the Western canon and she manages it through \n\t\t\t\t\u21bb RETAKE THE QUIZ\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n Here’s How Much Russell Crowe and Ethan Hawke’s New Movie Grossed in Its Box-Office Debut<\/p>\n Hawke and Crowe’s new movie is called The Weight<\/a>, helmed by Padraic McKinley in his directorial debut. It follows an incarcerated man who goes to great lengths to reunite with his daughter, while dealing with a menacing warden. The movie holds a “Certified Fresh” 93% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, where the consensus reads, “The Weight turns a stripped-down tale of desperation into a gripping, hard-hitting thriller, elevated by Ethan Hawke’s magnetic performance<\/a> and Padraic McKinley’s assured direction.” This makes it the highest-rated movie that Crowe has starred in since The Insider<\/a>, directed by Michael Mann<\/a>, which holds a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Crowe’s breakout hit, L.A. Confidential<\/a>, on the other hand, is sitting at a 99% score on the aggregator. This weekend, The Weight found a spot on the domestic top-10 list with a $2.5 million haul from approximately 1,500 theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.<\/p>\n Release Date<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 18, 2026<\/p>\n Runtime<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t115 minutes<\/p>\n Director<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPadraic McKinley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in a hat and suit looking off-camera pensively.Image via Sundance With only a couple of major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-622576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\t\t\tWhich Western Icon Are You Most Like?
\n\t\t\t\tNo Name \u00b7 Doc Holliday \u00b7 Wyatt Earp \u00b7 Mattie Ross<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tIn a Western, what people call you is already half the character.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBA nickname I picked up at a card table and never shook off.
\n\t\t\t\tCMarshal, and most people say it with a bit of respect.
\n\t\t\t\tDMy full name, and I will correct anybody who tries to shorten it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tEverything out here is character, right down to what is sitting on your hip.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBA pistol, a knife and a deck of cards, and the cards do most of the damage.
\n\t\t\t\tCA shotgun, because it tends to end arguments rather than start them.
\n\t\t\t\tDMy father’s gun, which is far too big for me, and I am carrying it anyway.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tA hero and their horse is one of the oldest relationships in cinema.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBWhatever I won last night, which may not be strictly mine yet.
\n\t\t\t\tCA big steady horse that will not spook when things get loud.
\n\t\t\t\tDA pony I overpaid for and named myself, and I will hear nothing against him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tThe saloon is where these films quietly tell you who somebody really is.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBAt the card table, holding court, up forty dollars and climbing.
\n\t\t\t\tCA quick drink, then a walk round town to see that everything is quiet.
\n\t\t\t\tDUpstairs with the ledger, working out exactly what tomorrow is going to cost.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tSomebody always turns up with a full purse and a bad idea.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBI say yes before he has finished, mostly because it sounds like a story.
\n\t\t\t\tCI ask him who gets hurt if I turn him down.
\n\t\t\t\tDI ask for the terms in writing before anybody shakes on anything.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tTwo people, an empty road, and everybody else watching from behind the shutters.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBSomebody grinning, which everyone watching finds deeply unnerving.
\n\t\t\t\tCSomebody making one last attempt to talk the other man down.
\n\t\t\t\tDSomebody far too young to be out there, walking out regardless.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tThe code is about the only thing west of the river that actually holds.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBRide off and leave a friend standing out there on his own.
\n\t\t\t\tCLet a whole town pay for a fight it had nothing to do with.
\n\t\t\t\tDLet a grown man tell me I am too young to be standing here.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tEight questions in, this is the one that decides your icon.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tBSomewhere warm and worn out, having enjoyed very nearly all of it.
\n\t\t\t\tCHome, with the badge on the table and the whole thing behind me.
\n\t\t\t\tDOlder, changed by it, and telling this story for the rest of my life.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\tYour Western Icon Is\u2026<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\tThis is the one you would have been out there, why it fits, and what it would have cost you.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbecause people work out fairly quickly that you are the most capable person in the room
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\twithout you ever having to mention it.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbackstory, the speeches and every bit of reassurance until only the competence was left.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave never felt any real need to fix it for them.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Dollars films work because he genuinely is in it for himself right up until the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmoment he is not, and he never explains that part either.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would be gone before anybody got a chance to thank you.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tperson in all of them, and you would be genuinely insulted if somebody suggested those two
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthings were in any tension.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich is the only reason he has ever needed for anything.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou lead with wit, and it does a very effective job of hiding how seriously you take the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thandful of people you actually care about.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVal Kilmer’s performance is the most quoted in the entire genre because the jokes keep
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgetting sharper as the situation gets worse.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would spend everything you had on this and still describe it as a good week.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\talternative was standing there watching somebody less careful do it badly, which is the most
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWestern reason there has ever been.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talone and somehow ended up answerable for all of it.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou are protective by instinct, so when something goes wrong your first thought is who
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis exposed rather than who is to blame.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThese films understand that keeping order costs far more than breaking it, and that the
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tperson holding the line almost never gets thanked.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would do the whole thing again, and you would complain about it the entire time.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\talready decided was right, and a long line of grown adults has found that out the hard way.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\targument, paperwork and flat refusal rather than a fast draw.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou have no patience for being managed, so you negotiate, you check the details and you
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tturn up exactly when you said you would.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrue Grit is the rare Western where the moral centre is the youngest person on screen
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand every adult around her has to catch up.
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou would get what you came for, and the film is honest about what that takes out of
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyou.<\/p>\n![\"the-weight-poster.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/the-weight-poster.jpg\"\/)
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