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Unforgiven (1992) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars Unforgiven (1992) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars
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Avg Critic Score:3.4662

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Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for DVD Review e-zine DVD Review e-zine
If you have wondered if the Wild West was really as glorious as the old movies have made you believe, then "Unforgiven" is one movie you must see. This award-winning movie created by the multi-talented Clint Eastwood - he acts as the producer, director, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review e-zine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Brian W. Fairbanks Review Brian W. Fairbanks Review
In Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, the winner of four 1992 Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, people die just as they have in dozens upon dozens of westerns but with one difference: whereas even the most minor characters killed off ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Brian W. Fairbanks Review
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Images Movie Journal Images Movie Journal
Unforgiven is dark, depressing, and full of failed figures. Munny’s failure as a pig farmer mirrors his failure at reformation through the love of a good Christian woman. In discussing the virtues of his dead wife to Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) and the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Images Movie Journal
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Movieline Magazine Movieline Magazine
Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, a dark, unsparing vision of frontier brutality, has been treated to such a Lifetime Achievement Award in prose that anyone who hasn't yet seen the film might understandably be wary of even more adulation. And yet the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Movieline Magazine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain) DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)
Perhaps no actor in recent memory is so well known for placing his own stamp on a genre as is Clint Eastwood with the Western. From his earliest beginnings in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti Westerns" to his own stunning directorial efforts (High Plains ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Verdict (Nicholas Sylvain)

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Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for The Onion A.V. Club (Keith Phipps) The Onion A.V. Club (Keith Phipps)
Of the extra features included on the new DVD version of Clint Eastwood's landmark 1992 Western Unforgiven, the one least related to the film proves the most telling. Thrown in seemingly because Warner Bros. owns the rights to the show, a 1959 episode of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Keith Phipps)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Frank R.A.J. Maloney Frank R.A.J. Maloney
UNFORGIVEN is just short of being a perfect film. I say this as a person who has never liked Clint Eastwood either personally or professionally. I suppose this is a kind of come-back film for Eastwood, who has littered the past decade of a string of ever ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Frank R.A.J. Maloney
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Stoneheel Michael Stoneheel Michael
Many Western fans consider this genre to be a cinema par excellance, while other persons claim that only a few Westerns are good films. UNFORGIVEN is a perfect opportunity to confront this issue. It seems to me that this film is about the Western myth, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Stoneheel Michael
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Time Out Time Out
A magnificent movie that transcends its familiar tale of a reformed gunman forced by circumstance to resume his violent ways. When a cowhand cuts up a prostitute and a bounty is placed on his head, killer-turned-farmer Will Munny (Eastwood) joins his old ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Time Out
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson) DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)
After one of their own's face is slashed, prostitutes in a mining town pool their money to hire a killer to do in the two cowboys responsible. First to arrive is Western legend English Bob (Richard Harris), who is brutally 'discouraged' by the pragmatic ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Savant (Glenn Erickson)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for LeisureSuit.net LeisureSuit.net
Unforgiven By the early nineties, the days of Best Picture Academy Award winners like Driving Miss Daisy and Rain Man were over. Oscar fell in love with violence, and gave us best pictures like The Silence of the Lambs, Braveheart, and the 6-million ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at LeisureSuit.net
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Big Picture Big Sound - HD-DVD review (Chris Boylan) Big Picture Big Sound - HD-DVD review (Chris Boylan)
Who'd have thought the young Clint Eastwood, with his roles on "Maverick," "Rawhide" and other genre TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s would have evolved into the icon of the American Western? And for that matter, who would have predicted not one but two ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Big Picture Big Sound - HD-DVD review (Chris Boylan)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for DVDBeaver DVDBeaver
As the most American of genres, it is interesting to look back on the last 25 years and to see, that in that period only three great Westerns were made: Walter Hill’s ”The Long Riders” (1980), Kevin Costner’s ”Dances with Wolves” (1990) and ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVDBeaver
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes) IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)
"Unforgiven" is a dark, emotional film that spends a lot of time in the gray area...there are no real good guys or bad guys...in the end we all end up damaged by the killing we do amongst ourselves. The cinematography is beautiful here, along with the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for DVD Town (John J. Puccio) DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
"Unforgiven" is producer-director-star Eastwood's and writer David Webb People's attempt to demytholigize the Western, to present the Old West on film as something closer to what it might really have been. Thus, you will find no heroes here, nor any true ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat) Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Unforgiven stars Clint Eastwood as Willy Munny, a retired gunslinger in the Old West who is failing as a hog farmer. To support his two children, he decides to go after a $1000 bounty on two cowboys who slashed the face of a prostitute. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Spirituality & Health (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Townsend) Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Townsend)
The film is chiefly the story of William Munny (Clint Eastwood), a struggling Kansas farmer still mourning the death of his wife. One day he is unexpectedly approached by the trigger-happy "Schofield Kid" (Jaime Woolvet) who asks him to join him a bounty ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Stephen Townsend)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz) Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" goes beyond the familiar story line of a reformed gunslinger who is forced to pick up his guns again, by Clint giving the myth a revisionist look through debunking the legendary western heroes. Written by David Webb Peoples, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers) Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
In three decades of climbing into the saddle, Eastwood has never ridden so tall. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (--) TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
One of Eastwood's finest outings to date, an elegiac western that ironically undermines the conventions of the genre, only to deliver a finale as legendary as the shootout at the O.K. Corral. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Film Geeks Film Geeks
What comes into your mind when you read those words? There are as many possible answers as there are people in the world. A pure pacifist might reject violence outright. Someone who is “hawkish” on national and personal security might say that yes, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Film Geeks
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks) The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Eastwood plays a weakened, once-violent but reformed gunfighter - and an aging pig farmer - in this serious, dark, film-noirish, violent tale of retribution that concludes with a climactic and bloody showdown. The themes of justice, law enforcement, the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Greatest Films (Tim Dirks)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Classic Film Guide Classic Film Guide
Though I personally prefer watching his spaghetti Westerns, it was great to see Eastwood finally get Oscar recognition. A replay of two years prior (ala Costner and his Western), Clint received the Director and Producer (Best Picture) Oscars while losing ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Classic Film Guide
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani) Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)
Eastwood's best film--a compelling...study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak, of courage and cowardice alike ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Perihelion Journal (Jay Antani)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Box Office Magazine Box Office Magazine
Roll over Kevin Costner, and take your overlong, picture-postcard, politically correct, "new age" horse opera with you. The western has found it's true renewal not in your Oscar-winning vanity project but in the hands of a man who was born to do the job, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Box Office Magazine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Box Office Magazine Box Office Magazine
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by David Webb Peoples. Produced by Clint Eastwood. Released by Warner Bros. Home Video. 1992. 131 minutes. Rated R. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Box Office Magazine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for The Flick Filosopher's take The Flick Filosopher's take
"It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," says thief and killer William Munny (Clint Eastwood, who also directed) in Unforgiven. "You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have." Practically an antimovie, this revisionist Western rejects the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Flick Filosopher's take
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for FilmDailies.com FilmDailies.com
The story itself reflects the dying genre, both Sergio Leone and Don Siegel died a few years before the movie was made. William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a vicious killer and thief who changed his evil ways 11 years ago. His wife gets credit for that but ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at FilmDailies.com
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - HD-DVD DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - HD-DVD
Clint Eastwood had hit a bit of a career rut in the late '80s and early '90s. He appeared in or directed such cinematic gems as The Rookie, The Dead Pool and Pink Cadillac. He managed to keep a hold onto a script for a number of years, a sleepy Western ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Verdict (Ryan Keefer) - HD-DVD
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Journal DVD Journal
Before Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven in 1992, westerns had, over the previous 20 years, been rightfully discarded as antique entertainments, poorly recycling the used ideas from classics of a distant era. The 1940s and 1950s belonged to the idealism of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Journal
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVDTown (John J. Puccio) DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
"Unforgiven" is producer-director-star Eastwood's and writer David Webb People's attempt to demytholigize the Western, to present the Old West on film as something closer to what it might really have been. Thus, you will find no heroes here, nor any true ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVDTown (John J. Puccio)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for 25frames.org (Christoph Huber) 25frames.org (Christoph Huber)
Big Whiskey, ein kleines Kaff irgendwo im Westen. Ein Cowboy zerschneidet der Prostituierten Delilah (Anna Levine ) das Gesicht, weil sie über seinen kleinen Penis gelacht hat. Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett (Gene Hackman ) wird geholt: Er lässt den ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at 25frames.org (Christoph Huber)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Expanded Cinemah Expanded Cinemah
Bogart di fine secolo, Eastwood consacra la propria immagine e sacrifica il proprio volto alla "immanenza della morte" (Bazin). Non sorprenda l'uso di termini religiosi: quella di Munny, Ned e Kid, quella del film, quella del "mito" è una vera e ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Expanded Cinemah
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Net (Gavin Turner) DVD Net (Gavin Turner)
Optioning the script for Unforgiven way back in 1976, Clint Eastwood sat on the project for 16 long years; long enough to finally consider himself old and grizzled enough for the film’s lead role. Certainly the film has benefited from its long ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Net (Gavin Turner)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for PreViewed DVD PreViewed DVD
Clint Eastwood is an accomplished actor and director, but he is perhaps best known as a cowboy and a cop. Eastwood began his career in the television and the movies as an actor in Westerns, and he solidified his stardom as ultra-tough guy cop Dirty Harry. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at PreViewed DVD
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Insiders Entertainment Insiders
Clint Eastwood's Oscar winning film is a wonderful revisionist look at the old west. Gone is all of the mythical qualities of his man with no name. Writer David Webb Peoples' script is an insightful look at the soul of a man who's soul has been carved up ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Entertainment Insiders
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Review e-zine DVD Review e-zine
"Unforgiven" is a remarkable film in many aspects and it is reflected in the fact that it received four Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture. Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the film that takes a long, hard look at the Wild ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review e-zine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Review e-zine DVD Review e-zine
"Unforgiven" is a remarkable film in many aspects and it is reflected in the fact that it received four Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture. Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the film that takes a long, hard look at the Wild ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review e-zine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Town (John J. Puccio) DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
The main character, played by Eastwood, is William Munny, a widower with two small children, living off the land in a little mud hole in the middle of the Kansas plains. But it wasn't always so with Munny. Some ten years earlier, he was a "rootin', ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Town (John J. Puccio)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Hal Hinson) Washington Post (Hal Hinson)
"Unforgiven" is Eastwood's 36th movie, and, with its impressive (and sadly under-used) supporting cast of Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman, the actor-filmmaker's most ambitious shot yet at a "classic" western; that is, a western in the larger-than-life ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Washington Post (Hal Hinson)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for kids-in-mind kids-in-mind
Clint Eastwood is a reformed outlaw who straps his guns on for the last time because he's a pig-farmer with sick pigs, and a bounty, offered for the killing of a couple of cowboys who slashed a prostitute, sounds like easy money. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at kids-in-mind
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine) Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)
Two roles define Clint Eastwood’s career, The Man With No Name and Dirty Harry, two men of action whose problem solving skills are located in their itchy trigger fingers. As a result, Eastwood’s “anti-western” Unforgiven, led critics to posit ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton) DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Roughly twenty years ago, Clint Eastwood bought the film rights to a little movie called Unforgiven. At the time, he didn't feel like he was right for it yet, so there it sat for ten years. Then, in 1992 the film went onto win several Academy Awards ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Authority.com (Matt Brighton)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Authority.com (Greg Bankston) DVD Authority.com (Greg Bankston)
Unforgiven, a multi-award winning film directed by Clint Eastwood, is a gripping story about the pointlessness of violence. However, what amazed me is what I discovered concerning Eastwood in the Filmmakers Bios. Beginning in 1971 with Play Misty for me, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Authority.com (Greg Bankston)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice Magazine Boxoffice Magazine
Roll over Kevin Costner, and take your overlong, picture-postcard, politically correct, "new age" horse opera with you. The western has found it's true renewal not in your Oscar-winning vanity project but in the hands of a man who was born to do the job, ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Eric Walker Eric Walker
UNFORGIVEN is just short of being a perfect film. I say this as a person who has never liked Clint Eastwood either personally or professionally. I suppose this is a kind of come-back film for Eastwood, who has littered the past decade of a string of ever ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Eric Walker
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Mark R. Leeper Mark R. Leeper
I picture Clint Eastwood as having gone through a similar moral crisis. He was the Man with No Name who could kill men by reflex. He was Dirty Harry, who made his day by gunning down punks. Eastwood made his living by that image. Perhaps there are even ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Mark R. Leeper
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for George V. Reilly George V. Reilly
Eastwood is Will Munny, a former gunslinger and drunkard, saved eleven years before by the love of a good woman. Freeman plays his old partner, Ned Logan, another killer-turned-farmer. Hackman is Little Bill Daggett, a brutally sadistic sheriff, none too ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at George V. Reilly
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Fulvue Drive-in Fulvue Drive-in
It was a low point in Clint Eastwood’s career. He was a known quantity as a director, but also still a big star going back and forth between the films he wanted to make and what he and Warner Bros. considered more commercial projects. When those ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Fulvue Drive-in
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert) Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" takes place at that moment when the old West was becoming new. Professional gunfighters have become such an endangered species that journalists follow them for stories. Men who slept under the stars are now building ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Washington Post (Desson Thomson) Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
It comes late in the movie and, coming from Clint Eastwood's steel-trap mouth, it's sweet music. "Any man don't wanna get killed," he warns a saloon full of armed varmints, "better clear on out the back." In "Unforgiven," his trembling opponents don't ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
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