Reliving 2007's '3:10 to Yuma'

Stoney Keeley looks back at the layers that make '3:10 to Yuma' such a captivating western.

I’m not here to write some grand think piece about how westerns are far more nuanced and layered than they’re given credit for. I know I’m late to the party on that concept, and concede that’s not the reason I started typing today. I recently rewatched James Mangold’s telling of 3:10 to Yuma from 2007. I was visiting my mother, who enjoys a good western, and came across it on Tubi. Upon discovering she had never seen it, I said, “oh - we have to watch this! It’s one of the greatest!”