Chris Pine Deserved an Oscar for Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Hell or High Water’

We’ve seen the versatile and charming Chris Pine take on a litany of roles over his career that have stretched him both emotionally and physically.

He has been the suave space pioneer Captain James T.

Kirk in the Star Trek movie franchise, the sophisticated CIA special ops man in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, the charismatic and rakish swindler Frank in Don’t Worry Darling, and most recently, the down-his-luck scoundrel in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

He has handled each of these characters with just the right amount of deft, nuance, and effusive energy.

But the role that is without a doubt his most layered and measured is as Toby Hooper in the Taylor Sheridan-written neo-Western Hell or High Water.

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