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Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades.
One of Unforgiven's assets is the way it overturns conventions, taking the man who is typically the hero and making him the villain, while transforming the traditional bad guy into a sympathetic protagonist.
A classic Western for the ages.
There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context.
Unforgiven is a most entertaining western that pays homage to the great tradition of movie westerns while surreptitiously expressing a certain amount of skepticism.
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.
Eastwood's best film -- a compelling study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak and of courage and cowardice.
Violent Oscar winner shatters myths of the Old West.
Unforgiven began Clint Eastwood's current apology tour for his cinematic violence.
Arguably the greatest western since Sam Peckinpah hung up his stirrups.
Ironically, the ultimate Western of all was made decades after its hayday. This is captivating for all, not just fans of the genre.
A rigorous deconstruction of both fictitious violence and Eastwood's own career as a trigger-happy 'hero.'
Unforgiven feels authentic, and for a Western there's no greater compliment.
Dark and somber in thematics and visuals, this Western is a personal work for Eastwood, in which he desconstructs his own mythic violent image, one that made him a star in the 1960s.
In this dark, timeless terrain, the film achieves a magnificent intensity.
...among the two or three last great Westerns Hollywood has produced. (HD-DVD Edition)
A complex and haunting Old-West morality tale...Thanks Clint, for once again making my day.
Conveys the power of the Western genre's myths ... as well as the ugly, unromantic realities that lurk behind them.
Revisionist Eastwood western is terrific on all counts.
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