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1 day ago · Welcome to Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the 100 best-reviewed Western movies of all time, sorted by Adjusted Tomatometer with at least 20 reviews for each selection. Additionally, we picked only...
Mar 13, 2024 · Some of the greatest Westerns ever made tweak the genre’s traditions and expectations — traditions and expectations created by countless films that like their good guys to wear white hats ...
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- The Harder They Fall (2021) A recent spin on the Western is co-screenwriter and director Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall, featuring a historically based, all-Black outlaw gang and a fierce cast that includes Oscar winner Regina King, Oscar nominees Idris Elba and Lakeith Stanfield, plus Zazie Beetz and Jonathan Majors.
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen walk a sublime line between comedy and tragedy in this anthology Western. Six short films include the surreal musical of the title (starring Tim Blake Nelson), an unlikely romance on the Oregon trail and an ominous stagecoach journey with a satisfying twist.
- The Hateful Eight (2015) There was something undeniably transporting and nostalgic about the limited-engagement presentation of The Hateful Eight over the 2015 holidays.
- Concrete Cowboy (2021) Inspired by the little-known, century-long culture of Black horseback riding in inner city Philadelphia, Ricky Staub’s neo-Western tells the unforgettable story of a father (the always stellar Idris Elba) who tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage son (Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things) by bringing him into the urban riding community.
- 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) Director: John Huston. It's a big call considering he also made The Maltese Falcon, but the 1948 Western adventure film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre could be John Huston's greatest picture.
- 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965) Director: Sergio Leone. The second film of Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, For a Few Dollars More sees Clint Eastwood reprising his role as the poncho-wearing Man with No Name, while Lee Van Cleef entered the fray as his unlikely ally.
- 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' (1962) Director: John Ford. The notion of Western heroes and quick-drawing cowboys has become something of a modern American myth.
- 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1969) Director: George Roy Hill. One of the best aspects of the Western genre is the interesting and complex characters it creates, whether they are fictional or, in the case of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, mythicized versions of actual people.
6 days ago · Remember the age of famous cowboy movies with classics like True Grit, featuring John Wayne's memorable performance, or encounter more contemporary yet equally stirring narratives like Quentin Tarantino's audacious Django Unchained.
Mar 13, 2024 · From 1952’s “High Noon” to Netflix’s “The Harder They Fall,” these 20 films are some of the best Western films and cowboy films from the past 70 years.
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Feb 29, 2024 · These gritty films pay homage to the American cowboy and life in the Old West. Celebrated actors, like Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, and John Wayne, often portray the heroes—and you'll fall for these leading men all over again when you see them in action.
