Taylor Sheridan Fans Have One Last Chance To Stream This 90-Minute Neo-Western

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The silhouette of a man holding a rifle with the sunset sky in the background in 'Blue Ruin' (2013)

Published Feb 21, 2026, 9:00 AM EST

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With Taylor Sheridan's films and shows almost single-handedly reviving neo-Westerns, one of the original breakouts of the genre deserves a shout-out as the market becomes more cluttered. Sheridan broke out as a writer with Sicario, and then earned an Oscar nod for writing Hell or High Water and created his magnum opus, Yellowstone. A few years earlier, however, director Jeremy Saulnier made a lean revenge thriller for under half a million dollars and earned widespread praise. Saulnier has continued to work in the neo-Western genre; he directed the Netflix movies Hold the Dark, starring Jeffrey Wright and Alexander Skarsgård, and more recently Rebel Ridge, starring Aaron Pierre and Don Johnson. The movie he broke out with, however, was far smaller in both scale and star power.

The movie starred Saulnier's regular collaborator Macon Blair, who played a supporting role in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and directed The Toxic Avenger reboot starring Peter Dinklage recently. Blair and Saulnier's movie was crowdfunded via Kickstarter, and follows a vagabond on a revenge quest to kill the man who murdered his family decades earlier. The movie earned widespread acclaim, and is now sitting at a "Certified Fresh" 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The aggregator website's consensus reads, "Smart, stripped-down, and thrillingly grim, Blue Ruin proves that a well-told revenge story can still leave its audience on the edge of their seat."

Here's How Long You Have Left to Watch 'Blue Ruin'

A man with blood on his shirt standing beside a car in Blue Ruin.

The movie in question is Blue Ruin, which was released theatrically in 2014 following a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. Produced on a reported budget of under $500,000, the movie made just under $1 million at the box office. Saulnier went on to direct the thriller Green Room, which holds a 90% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Hold the Dark has a 69% score, while Rebel Ridge holds a 96% score. Saulnier is now putting together a horror movie for A24, titled October, and starring Cory Michael Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Sophie Wilde, James Badge Dale, and Imogen Poots.