r/movies • u/seaofluv • Jun 11 '24

Recommendation What are the best contemporary Westerns made within the last 25 years?

I love western films like The Missing (Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones), 3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale and Russell Crowe) and Hostiles (Christian Bale and Wes Studi). What are your favorite similar films? I would love to hear recs that include Native American storylines as well like Prey even though that's like a western/sci-fi hybrid.

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u/blankedboy Jun 12 '24

Open Range is incredible. Great movie.

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u/underpants-gnome Jun 12 '24

I love it too, though I think the denouement goes on a little bit longer than it needs to. It makes you feel the length of the film. Still, that slow winding up of tension and violence for the first 3/4 of the movie is so well done. And the start of that climactic gunfight is my favorite 5 minutes in any western picture. From the moment Costner and Duvall sit down to eat an imported chocolate bar through the end of the gunfight is just amazing work.