A mostly faithful remake of Delmer Daves’s 1957 classic,
3:10 to Yuma isn’t a necessary film. But it sure is tasty.
Beautiful, gripping, and impeccably cast (arch-villain Ben Foster could
fry twin cigarette burns with his close-set eyes, and Russell
Crowe aces his best role in forever), this is a Western that lives up
to the capital W. (See Movie Times for details.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...