Lonesome Dove (1989) Review
Lonesome Dove (1989) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Six and a half hours of television that does what almost no Western film has room for, which is to follow a cattle drive long enough that the…
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AdventureJeremiah Johnson (1972) Review
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man goes into the mountains to be alone and the film spends two hours on the practical difficulty of that. Almost no dialogue, real winter, and a…
Buddy FilmButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Review
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. William Goldman sold the screenplay for four hundred thousand dollars and the film is a comedy about two men becoming obsolete. The freeze frame…
Action3:10 to Yuma (2007) Review
3:10 to Yuma (2007) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. James Mangold opens the story out, adds an hour, gives the rancher a limp and a war record, and turns a chamber piece into a journey. Ben…
Drama3:10 to Yuma (1957) Review
3:10 to Yuma (1957) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A rancher takes two hundred dollars to hold an outlaw in a hotel room until a train arrives, and almost the entire film is the two of…
ActionThe Dark Tower (2017) Review
The Dark Tower (2017) rates 3 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Eight novels written across thirty-four years were compressed into ninety-five minutes, which is the shortest running time any studio fantasy has attempted this century. Idris Elba and…
DramaHeaven’s Gate (1980) Review
Heaven's Gate (1980) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Cimino shot two hundred and twenty hours of film for forty-four million dollars, took three and a half million at the box office, and ended the era that…
ComedyBlazing Saddles (1974) Review
Blazing Saddles (1974) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Mel Brooks made an anti-racist film by putting the ugliest language available in the mouths of idiots and letting the sheriff outthink them. Made for two point six…
ActionTombstone (1993) Review
Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…
HorrorNear Dark (1987)
Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark strips every vampire cliche and builds a Western instead. That tension carries the picture.
HorrorA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Ana Lily Amirpour's black-and-white Iranian vampire Western is the genre's most striking recent debut. The chador is the film's masterstroke of design.
IndieHell or High Water (2016)
Mackenzie's 2016 modern western. Chris Pine and Ben Build as bank-robbing brothers, Jeff Bridges as the Ranger.