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Taylor Sheridan Director’s β€˜The Hurt Locker’ Meets β€˜Heat’ Thriller Is a Sudden Streaming Hit

30 May 2026 at 15:40

If there's one director working right now who simply doesn't get the credit they deserve for having essentially forged a career akin to that of Steven Soderbergh, it's David Mackenzie. He simply cannot be put in a box, having made movies that belong to genres as diverse as epic historical (Outlaw King) and prison drama (Starred Up). His most popular movie, however, remains the Taylor Sheridan-penned neo-Western Hell or High Water, starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, and Gil Birmingham. The movie holds a near-perfect 97% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, which, in any other circumstances, would have set up Mackenzie for life. However, he didn't jump to major franchise filmmaking or prestige television following Hell or High Water's admirable success. He continued down his chosen path of making genre movies. And now, his latest film is emerging as a sudden hit on the PVOD market.

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