Old Henry

Old Henry (2021) is a western from writer-director Potsy Ponciroli, and you can watch it online on iFILM. A widowed farmer raises his teenage son on a remote homestead and works hard to draw no attention to himself.

Then Henry (Tim Blake Nelson) takes in a wounded stranger he finds with a satchel full of cash. Before long, armed men ride up claiming to be the law. The farmer has to decide on his own whom to trust. When the siege starts, the quiet plowman handles a revolver in a way that stops the gunmen cold: this man clearly did more in his life than till soil. Stephen Dorff plays the leader who slowly grasps exactly who he's cornered.

It's a tight, hard-edged story built on a simple truth: you can't bury the past. Tim Blake Nelson carries the whole film with barely a word, letting his eyes and every gunshot say the rest, right up to a twist near the end. Stream Old Henry (2021) online on iFILM.