The Highwaymen

In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.

The Highwaymen flips the Bonnie and Clyde legend to follow the lawmen who hunted them down, and critics were broadly split on whether that inversion is enough to sustain a film. Costner and Harrelson's easy chemistry drew consistent praise, but many reviewers felt the procedural pacing and reverent tone left the story feeling inert — a handsome, well-acted picture that struggles to justify its existence alongside the mythology it's deliberately pushing against.