I won’t spoil (heh) the ending, but I will say this: Thanks to the combined efforts of the movie’s props department, who gave the oily cakes their ideal ochre crunch; the sound team, who came up with ...

In Kelly Reichardt’s lovely new movie First Cow, set way out on the 1820s Oregon frontier, Cookie Figowitz (John Magaro) and his friend King-Lu (Orion Lee) rake in the dough thanks to, well, dough.