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Martin McDonagh’s latest dark comedy airs on HBO. And Mariah Carey performs in a Christmas special on CBS.

Walter Hill’s lean, mean shoot-’em-up is a master class in B-movie craft.

Walter Hill has helmed many great westerns and has often made a low budget go a long way, but his latest is a sorry misfire.

Within a few days of each other, I saw "Schindlers List" and "Geronimo," and it occurred to me that both films are about Holocausts, about entire populations murdered because of their race. But Americans are not quick to describe our treatment of the Indians as genocide, and even a somewhat revisionist film like "Geronimo" is careful to describe the conflicts between the U.S. government and Indian "hostiles" as a war. It was a war carried out with most of the power on our side, and our justific...