It’s stunning cinematography by Jack N. Green is breathtaking, with the brilliant use of wide-shots and placing characters in the foreground in order to capture the epic scale and power of the wide-screen.

| Jul 31, 2024

A better modern western has yet to be made.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 12, 2024

... it finally made official what critics and fans had slowly come to realize over the last decade: Clint Eastwood—legendary as both the iconic western drifter with no name and Dirty Harry—was one of America’s best directors.

| Nov 18, 2023

David Webb Peoples’ screenplay skillfully balances the seasoned perspective on the ramifications of violence with the compelling journey of a young gunslinger determined to make a name for himself.

| Jun 14, 2023

It is arguably his [Eastwood] finest achievement, it is certainly his apex as an actor.

| Dec 7, 2022

As great as the script and cinematography are (they are both unassailable), the real magic of Unforgiven is in the performances.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 17, 2022

By embracing the uncertainty behind Munny, the Old West, and American myths, Eastwood elevates a simple story by transcending the genre itself, and transforming his film into great art with the dynamic and compassion that has become his signature.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 2, 2022

An astoundingly powerful tale of a strangely anti-Old West, multilayered outlaw, this film is one of the finest revisionist epics ever brought to the big screen.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 25, 2020

Unforgiven thus rejects Eastwood's previous filmography and the patriotic speeches of many other filmmakers involved with the western. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 8, 2020

Arguably the last of the great movie westerns... The real star of the show here is Gene Hackman, playing the psychotic town sheriff who stands in the way of the trio's bounty.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 15, 2020

[Eastwood's] best Western -- the most distinguised film he has appeared in and directed -- since The Outlaw Josey Wales.

| Feb 6, 2020

Eloquent and expansive, Unforgiven is arguably the best film of Eastwood's career-a movie that could well serve as the last word on the western.

| Feb 6, 2020

Clint Eastwood's brilliant and harrowing Unforgiven packs all the punch of a good Western without indulging in the plot cliches and moral certitudes so often inherent in the genre.

| Feb 5, 2020

Apart from giving the Western genre a powerful boost Unforgiven does wonders for Eastwood's own profile.

| Feb 5, 2020

With its unflinching depictions of brutalities, Eastwood's new western calls to mind the work of Sam Peckinpah. But Eastwood's cadences are slow, his antiheros rueful, his atmosphere murky and chilling.

| Feb 21, 2019

The film has a kind of wise knowingness which may well mislead some people into thinking that its main aim is to debunk the western.

| Jul 25, 2018

Unforgiven gives us something to think about -- and something to answer for -- and Eastwood was just the man to make it.

| Apr 26, 2018

[Clint] Eastwood reinvents the western. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 2, 2018

Impressive, laconic, revisionist western.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2018

...one of the greatest westerns in the history of cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 28, 2018