An Obscure 2022 Murder Mystery Western Is Killing It On Netflix

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Westerners may have fallen out of favor decades ago, but they never really died. Even after the genre was certainly out of popularity in the 1970s, there was a truly amazing Western trickle, from “Relentless” in 1992 to “True Grit” in 2010. Heck, there have even been some great Western films that have come out of the past decade. Still, it remains true that the age of genre’s glory has long been behind it.

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But in recent years there have been hints of modest Western revival, as Hollywood has discovered that conservatives have also discovered everywhere they have learned things and how dads can use streaming services. The most influential factors here are Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” and its various spinoffs. This proves that both neo and traditional Westerners not only maintain a particular appeal, but also serve as the basis for some of the most successful shows on television today.

So we’re sure to see far more in Western entertainment methods over the next few years. As streaming shows and movies find ways to shoot shoes with the name “Yellowstone” in their title, and Netflix finds success in Western series such as “American Prime Eval” and “Ransom Canyon,” the process you may have noticed has already begun. Now, the 2022 film “Murders in Yellowstone City” began life as “Murders in Immigrants” before producers were considered best to turn Sheridan into his own film, but dominates the Netflix charts as the West continues to make a modest but very realistic revival.

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“The Murder in Yellowstone City” is directed by Australian filmmakers Richard Gray and Starr. It was with chapter 2, “Actors Isaiah Mustafa and Gabriel Byrne (“The Treatment”) and Thomas Jane (“Hang”). After Proctor attacks gold in a mining town in Yellowstone City, he is quickly murdered, urging Sheriff Jim Ambrose (Bearn) to assume that new and former slave Xeero (Mustafa) is the murderer. But soon Cicero is innocent, and the town’s pastor, Thaddeus Murphy (Jane) and his wife, Alice (Anna Camp), do their best to convince Ambrose to find the real culprit. The film arrived at a handful of theatres and was given a VOD release in 2022. This seems to be the year of the “Yellowstone” TV movie.

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Despite using “Yellowstone” instead of “Immigrant Gulch” in the title, no one paid attention to “Murder in Yellowstone City.” But that’s fine. Because the movie has been a hit on Netflix and has proven to be a hit right away. Arrived on April 24, 2025 at the US streamer, the film debuted the following day at the number one spot. Flixpatrol. It sent “Murder in Yellowstone City” to number 60 on the charts around the world, but it’s not a bad little debut, considering that it appears to be only in states where the film is available. I wonder how his father turned it off after realising that it had nothing to do with the show “Yellowstone”? However, it is not a metric that Flixpatrol tracks.

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25% turned on Rotten tomatoesThe short answer to whether “Murders in Yellowstone City” is worth watching is simply “not really.” The longer answer is that Tomatometer is not the best gauge, as RT only collects reviews of the film’s three “Top Critics” versions.

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Joe Leydon over Variety The film praises Richard Gray’s “well-made, handsomely mounted indie” as “a well-built mystery” and “traditional satisfying auter,” and recommends it to fans of genres that rarely sample such a mix. But of the three top critic reviews, Lydon is the only positive review, and Noel Murray Los Angeles Times “Murders in Yellowstone City” “laughs the way in which it surrounds a great cast of slow-paced stories with slow tones.”

Austin ChronicleJosh Kupecky of , wrote that “the story is best served as something that is best seen as something that is glimpsed rather than being too closely examined,” and was less moved. It sounds like “ambient TV” “Filter World” Netflix’s thriving author Kyle Chayka dubbed it. And when you combine it with the early “Yellowstone” Western Renaissance, there’s a streaming hit on the hand.

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Meanwhile, “Murders in Yellowstone City” managed to at least abdicate the film “Ihostage,” which has at least dominated Netflix’s recent recent, real Apple Store robbery film. The thriller is currently second in the US, but Clint Eastwood’s controversial war film now ranks fourth after originally stolen Netflix’s throne “Ihostage.” We don’t know yet how long this West can hold its top spot, but there are certainly more “yellowstone” types of works to replace it when it disappears from the charts.