In “ Americana ,” half a dozen ruthless characters (including a van full of stereotype-defying Native Americans) are desperate to get their hands on a Lakota ghost shirt, a sacred garment believed to protect whoever wears it from white men’s bullets. Considering the sheer amount of ammo spent trying to obtain it, such a shirt sure would come in handy … though no one thinks to put the darn thing on in a stylish genre mashup that takes a page (or more) from Tarantino, remixing everything from classic Westerns to stylish neo-noirs such as “Blood Simple” and “The Last Stop in Yuma County.”

Debuting at SXSW in 2023, then trapped in limbo for two years amid the Bron bankruptcy, “Americana” marks the arrival of a promising new imitation artist in writer-director Tony Tost , a published poet

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