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Unforgiven

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Unforgiven

1992

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris ...

8.2

96,009

Western. Drama Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been slashed by a client, the women hire Bill Munny (Eastwood), a reformed gunslinger, to gain vengeance. However, Munny must contend with his new moral code in the face of revisiting the life he left behind. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Mike Clark USA Today	"It shouldn't be missed by anyone with a taste for Eastwood's typically slanted morality. It's the actor/director's best movie -- and the best Western by anybody -- in over 20 years (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"In three decades of climbing into the saddle, Eastwood has never ridden so tall"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Simultaneously heroic and nihilistic (...) a film that resonates with the spirit of films past while staking out a territory quite its own"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"A tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes"
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Though the movie is riddled with memorable scenes of violence, its pace is slow -- too slow. It has an epic sprawl, but it's not an epic. It's more like a bloated fairy tale"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"That implacable moral balance, in which good eventually silences evil, is at the heart of the Western, and Eastwood is not shy about saying so (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Martin Chilton Telegraph	"It is a sombre, insightful, genre-reinventing western, directed by a filmmaker acutely aware of the western’s history (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Angie Errigo Empire	"This is captivating for all, not just fans of the genre (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The cast is splendid (...) This is [Eastwood's] richest, most satisfying performance"

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