Few genres are as steeped in myth and moral weight as the Western, and fewer film-makers understood that better than Sergio Leone, whose The Good, the Bad and the Ugly remains one of cinema's great operatic experiences. At its best the genre strips storytelling down to landscape, silence and consequence. See what Macca makes of the classics and the revisionist takes in the reviews below.
Rating: 3.5★
The Western is one of Hollywood's oldest and most codified genres, stretching back to the nickelodeon era and carrying with it a set of visual and moral assumptions that have proved remarkably stubborn. For most of that history, the genre's mythology was a white one, despite
Rating: 3.5★
There is a particular pleasure in revisiting a film that arrived quietly, did modest business, and then spent the following fifty years proving itself right. Westworld, released in 1973, is exactly that kind of film. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, it imagines a sprawling luxury resort called Delos where
Genre Western
★★★½ — The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Genre Western
★★½ — Rio Bravo (1959)
Genre Western
★★★½ — Ride Lonesome (1959)
Genre Western
★½ — The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Genre Western
★★★ — Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Genre Drama
★★½ — True Grit (2010)
Genre Western
★★★½ — The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Genre Adventure
★★★ — Wagon Master (1950)
Genre Comedy
★★½ — My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Genre Western
★★★½ — Duck, You Sucker (1971)
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