The best Western movie of 2024 is finally available to stream at home

The film has a near-perfect 97% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Streaming via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema, the neo-Western noir stars Jim Cummings (Thunder Road) as a travelling knife salesman in the '70s who stops off at a filling station in the Arizona desert when his car runs low on fuel.

It turns out the station's pumps are dry, but that a refuelling truck is expected to show up shortly.

While waiting in the diner next door in the company of its kindly owner (Jocelin Donahue, House of the Devil), a disparate group of customers arrive - including two bank robber brothers (Nicholas Logan and Richard Brake) who wind up taking the restaurant hostage.

The feature debut of writer-director Francis Galluppi, Yuma County mines great atmosphere and tension out of its pressure cooker setting and the gorgeous desert vistas that surround it.

While the film begins as a comic and stylish love letter to noirs and Westerns (think Bad Day at Black Rock and The Hateful Eight), a series of surprising and shocking developments midway through the story give it an added edge - helping it stand out from the crowd.

It also boasts a great cast of recognisable faces including horror legend Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator) and Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men).

Holding an amazing 97% Rotten Tomatoes score on Rotten Tomatoes, Yuma County is also noteworthy for being so beloved by Evil Dead creator Sam Raimi that he hired Galluppi to direct an upcoming entry in the franchise.

You can read some of the rave reviews for the Western here:

Bloody Disgusting: "There’s a savage sense of humour and mean streak to Galluppi’s tense, dusty neo-noir western, making for an insanely fun single-location thriller."

The Daily Beast: "A tense, fatalistic saga of bad luck and worse decisions, it’s a throwback that feels as fresh and alive as its predecessors did decades ago. Not to be missed, it stands as one of the most welcome surprises of this moviegoing year."

FilmWeek: "A quirky, indie Neo-noir Western with a dash of Coen Brothers and a sprinkle of Tarantino. Darkly funny, well-acted, and cleverly written."

RogerEbert.com: "Last Stop in Yuma County is the kind of movie where you root for the worst to happen, because every escalation of misfortune makes things more entertaining."

San Jose Mercury News: "Tension builds to a breaking point in Galluppi’s salute to noirs past and present that has a distinct style all to its own."

The Last Stop in Yuma County is available to watch via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema in the UK and Ireland.

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