Gets by on goodwill and a passion for compromised Americana. Only a lowdown dirty heel would cuss it out.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2021

Low-key in all the ways it needed to be. But I laughed, I cried and I really enjoyed it.

| May 10, 2021

Comic actors Steve Zahn and Jillian Bell are uncharacteristically earnest in this achingly well-intentioned but thuddingly heavy-handed family drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2021

A bit too sweet, though. Too neat. Too happy ever after.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 8, 2021

Anna Kerrigan's compassionate, sweetly realised drama finds small ways to challenge the assumptions that lie within these opening images.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2021

Sensitive and moving. Can't wait to see what Kerrigan does next.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2021

There's a marvellous gentleness and warmth to this Montana-set drama from writer-director Anna Kerrigan...

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2021

Seek it out.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2021

Cowboys is a tender father-and-son tale alive with love, joy, and a wondrous sprinkling of Zahn-niess.

| Feb 15, 2021

Writer-director Anna Kerrigan's western-tinged "Cowboys" feels like the right movie at the right time.

| Feb 12, 2021

The conflicts at the heart of "Cowboys" are timely, coming in a moment when trans children and their rights are at the forefront of American political debate. But the writer and director Anna Kerrigan doesn't sensationalize her story.

| Feb 11, 2021

The film takes a broader lens than the intimate story prescribes, but the final view is still a stunner.

| Original Score: B | Feb 3, 2021

Zahn brings great warmth to one of his most surprising performances yet, as does the usually radiant, unexpectedly severe Bell... both comedic actors given a chance to defy expectations in a movie that fully embraces the spirit of reinvention.

| Aug 28, 2020

Uneven but original and captivating.

| May 1, 2020