Some movie plots are just too good to give away in a review. And, in a way, it’s a shame we have to say a single word about the one in “Red Rock West,” a racily entertaining, wonderfully sly ...

Our Flick of the Week is “Red Rock West,” the first really exciting American film of the new year, a solid western film noir, which means a film of the night with dark characters doing evil deeds.

As befits a movie rich with plot twists and turns, “Red Rock West” took an unusual course on its way to movie theaters. The thriller, which stars Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, J.T. Walsh… ...