Ethan Hawke is having a moment, the way fellow Newton boy Matthew McConaughey did a few years back. Onscreen since age 14 — yet taken for granted far too long — the undeniable talent behind those chiseled cheeks and snaggled teeth has been more visible than ever of late, finally earning Academy recognition for “Blue Moon,” in which he took the biggest stretch of his career: playing short, balding Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart. “The Weight,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival but feels like it could have been made in the 1970s, features a role that fits more neatly within Hawke’s wheelhouse … but that doesn’t mean you’ve seen him like this before.
An old-fashioned, off-the-grid adventure story set during the Great Depression — a “Wages of Fear”-like wilderness trek, as John Huston or John Boorman might have told it, involving the transport of four packs of heavy gold bars…
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