Westerns may not be as popular as they once were from a box office standpoint, but new titles in the genre continue to be released regularly. The Western (and the neo-Western) has also become particularly popular in the TV landscape, with the Taylor Sheridan universe essentially reviving the genre with Yellowstone and its spinoffs like 1883 and 1923. The genre isn't quite dead on the movie side of things, though, as 2015's The Revenant proves.

Taking place in the 1820s and in a frozen landscape that's less often featured in a typical Western, The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a frontiersman who sets out for revenge after being left for dead. The movie hails from director Alejandro G. Iñárritu with a script from Iñárritu, Mark L. Smith, and Michael Punke, and it was a major critical and commercial hit. Smith is now returning to the Western genre with a new Netflix miniseries,...