Tommy Lee Jones has starred in more than enough Westerns over the years to justify the way he’s strongly identified with the genre. He earned an Emmy nomination for Lonesome Dove in 1989, directed himself in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and later The Homesman, and even some of his non-Westerns carry a bit of the genre’s DNA — No Country for Old Men, for example, is essentially a border Western wearing a thriller’s clothes.

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