This Forgotten Matthew McConaughey Neo-Western Classic Nailed Something We See in the News Every Day Almost 30 Years Ago

For over 40 years, John Sayleshas been considered one of Hollywood's most unrepentant independent filmmakers, and over the course of his illustrious career, he has frequently explored race relations, through a variety of different settings and time periods. In 1996, Sayles wrote and directed Lone Star, a movie with a title that makes it sound like a Western, and sure, some might even consider it a Western. But beneath the surface, it is, in fact, a complex dramatic crime-thriller that focuses on the community of a small Texas border town, which has suffered from decades of overt and more subdued systemic racism.