Top 10 Movies: Westerns
The highest-graded western movies we have reviewed, best first.
UnforgivenThe western that buried the western's lies, delivered by the genre's own icon.Read the review
Django UnchainedTarantino's spaghetti-western revenge fantasy, powered by two career-best villains and a bounty hunter for the ages.
No Country for Old MenThe Coens strip out the score entirely and let wind, boots and a cattle gun do the scoring instead.
Old HenryA small farm, a bag of money and one of the best late reveals the western has produced this century.
The Hateful EightTarantino locks eight liars in one room and shoots it like a landscape.
SholayThe film that taught Hindi cinema how to build a villain, and fifty years later nothing has topped Gabbar Singh.
The Power of the DogA western built entirely out of what a cruel man cannot say, and it only clicks in retrospect.
True GritThe Coens play a western straight, and Portis prose plus Deakins light makes it their most beautiful film.
Wind RiverSheridan turns a procedural into a study of grief in a landscape that kills, and the speeches are the only thing holding it back.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert FordRoger Deakins shooting a slow murder ballad, with Casey Affleck playing envy better than almost anyone has.
