This week's movies: Concrete Cowboy, Final Days and Thunder Force 

— Idris Elba is an urban cowboy complete with a Stetson and a horse stabled in the front room
This week's movies: Concrete Cowboy, Final Days and Thunder Force 

Concrete Cowboy ****

The American cowboy is synonymous with the Old West and wide open spaces, and – according to Hollywood, at least – almost invariably white. Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboy (15A) directly addresses this whitewashing of one of America’s most potent archetypes, sending disaffected teenager Cole (Caleb McLaughlin) into the heart of Philadelphia, where he is bemused to discover that his estranged father Harp (Idris Elba) is an urban cowboy, complete with Stetson and a horse stabled in the front room of his house. 

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