Here is Costner, calm and careful, his skin these days only a little older with its new indentations and fine markings. And when he is like this on screen, he is perfect.

Some killing, but most violence is PG-13.

Handsomely mounted, as you would expect, Open Range has a good deal to commend it.

Decidedly “old school” in both content and intent, this doesn’t expand the parameters of the Western but instead feels like a throwback to the types of oaters that populated moviehouses until their fizzle in the late 70s.