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Kid (1990)
This modern western toys with classic genre conventions and gives them a new and quite attractive 1990s wrapping in which heavy metal aficionados are pitted as part of the solution rather than the problem (for once). The bad guys are middle-aged, trigger-happy chauvinists, and our good guy – our sexy, steaming, too-cool-for-school good guy – is like a 20-year-old Blondie. He doesn't talk unless he has to, and he doesn't kill unless he's compelled to – but boy, do we get that he is. We also get why the delicate Sarah Trigger wants him to pay her nightly visits. Kid is more or less the ultimate B-movie. It uses all of its stereotypical ingredients to create a timeless, suspenseful guilty pleasure – and, incidentally, also a fine tribute to 1990s fashion. Arguably C. Thomas Howell's best ever performance. [Click here for original Norwegian review.]
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