‘Yellowstone’ Review: Kevin Costner Plays Cowboy in Taylor Sheridan’s Brutal Wreck of a Western

In some ways, “Yellowstone” is an embodiment of Taylor Sheridan’s core attributes as a writer.

Lush, rolling landscapes set the scene for a starkly violent story.

Beautiful actors are torn down to their barest forms, depicting rugged men and women who couldn’t care less about box office totals or post-premiere parties.

These are real people with meaningful priorities; priorities bigger than themselves.In “Sicario,” it’s one woman trying to find justice in an unjust war.

In “Hell or High Water,” it’s two brothers robbing banks in order to get by in a broken economy.

In “Yellowstone,” Sheridan broadens his scope to an entire family — presumably, to provide more narrative fodder for television’s elongated stories — and the larger-than-life force they’re working for and against is the land itself.

The Duttons have made Montana their home and intend to keep it that way, no matter what

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