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REVIEW: ‘Rust’ honours the classic Hollywood western, uneasily

“Rust,” Alec Baldwin and Joel Souza’s slow-moving, sepia-toned homage to the American western, is the kind of respectable if unremarkable genre exercise that would have come and gone without much notice were it not for the circumstances of its making. In 2021, during rehearsal of a scene, a gun being held by Baldwin – the film’s producer and star – discharged. “Rust’s” director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, was shot in the chest and killed. The production’s armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Charges against Baldwin were dropped .

May 1, 2025 Movies
Alec Baldwin stars in "Rust."
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