“Butcher’s Crossing” (2022) – Where would you take your dream vacation? Maui? Walt Disney World? Los Angeles? Paris? London? Tokyo? The Bahamas? In 2023, a family of four might choose one of those destinations, but in director/co-writer Gabe Polsky’s western, the year is 1874, and 20-something Harvard student Will Andrews (Fred Hechinger) wants to experience life. So, he packs his bags, leaves Boston, and heads out west to the tiny municipality of Butcher’s Crossing, Kansas, where the harsh saloon whiskey might be the gentlest creature comfort in town. Its merchants…
‘Butcher’s Crossing’ doesn’t quite make the cut
