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The first trailer for LGBTQ-themed drama “Cowboys” kind of looks like a Western take on the Taika Waititi film “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” and that’s enough to grab our attention.

The first trailer for LGBTQ-themed drama “Cowboys” kind of looks like a Western take on the Taika Waititi film “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” and that’s enough to grab our attention.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Cowboys” taps directly into the myth of the American male, with his leather boots and blue jeans, square jaw and wide stance, as immortalized in the collective imagination by painter Frederick Remington, director John Ford and decades of Marlboro tobacco advertising. But it does so with a twist: This debut feature from Anna Kerrigan explores how that tough-guy archetype impresses itself on a gender-nonconforming child.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSamuel Goldwyn Films has bought North American rights to “Cowboys,” which won best actor for Steve Zahn and best script for Anna Kerrigan at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival competition.Zahn stars as a troubled but well-intentioned father who has recently separated from his wife Sally, played by Jillian Bell.

[In the wake of the Tribeca festival's postponement this year,The Hollywood Reporter is reviewing select fest entries that elected to premiere digitally for critics.] What a pleasure to see the underrated Steve Zahn in a leading role that fully capitalizes on the contradictory currents coursing through his screen persona — of mellowness and wired energy, grounded warmth and off-kilter unpredictability.