No genre could be considered more quintessential to American cinema than westerns.
Like a fistful of dynamite, these ten westerns are an absolute blast.
Desperadois available to rent on Prime Video.
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It’s now oftenconsidered Keaton’s greatest film.
Their first partnership is a film that is both old-fashioned (for good and bad) and surprisingly modern.
The action is transplanted to a small Mexican village held under the tyranny ofEli Wallach’sbandit leader.
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It’s a western that truly calls down the thunder.
With that basic premise,the film weaves together all sorts of western iconographyand delivers an action-packed ride.
Bale and Crowe bring moral complexities to their archetypes, andBen Fosterslithers as a dirty rotten henchman.
It all adds up to a western thatdoesn’t do anything new, just everything right.
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