The Western will never reach the heights it didduring its Golden Age.
That period saw an unprecedented number of oaters produced at a rapid-fire rate.
That shouldn’t give any modern Western fan reason to despair, however.
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There’sAppaloosa,Slow West, andMeek’s Cutoff, to name but a few.
Add to thatthe underratedThe Sisters Brothers, an idiosyncratic Western with a stellar cast.
Directed by recent Oscar-nomineeJacques Audiard, the film adaptsPatrick DeWitt’snovel into a darkly funny tale of the West.
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However, it wasn’t untilDjango Unchainedthat he tackled the genre head-on.
There are few Westerns as visceral asThe Revenant, andits technical achievements help to smooth over any middling flaws.
StarringKurt Russell, this is a slow-burn Western with heavy doses of horror.
It’sone of the most chillingly effective films ofthe underappreciated Horror Western subgenreand is certain to leave a lasting impact.
It’sa gut-wrenching morality talewith characters that are just as savage as the landscape they inhabit.
Plainview’s downfall isn’t characterized by professional failures but by moral ones.
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An American masterpiece and a Western that is among the best of any century.
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