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Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCritic.com (Ryan Arthur)eFilmCritic.com (Ryan Arthur)
William Munny (Eastwood) was a notorious killer, and thief, whom killed many people for or without reason, mainly because he was always drunk, and the whiskey was what gave him courage and aim. Then he retired to settle himself into the married life as a ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Ryan Arthur)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for VideoVista VideoVista
The old adage that "form is temporary but class is permanent" has never rung so true as with this now-legendary western. Despite a string of fairly innocuous efforts throughout the 1980s, Clint Eastwood was always destined to re-discover his Midas touch ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at VideoVista
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for DVD Clinic ("The Shootin Surgeon")DVD Clinic ("The Shootin Surgeon")
Desperate for money, two retired, aging bounty killers (Eastwood and Freeman) set off on a trail along with a young up and comer (Jaimz Woolvett). The bounty, offered up by a group of whores who've seen one of theirs get cut up by a rancher becomes a ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Clinic ("The Shootin Surgeon")
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The action scenes have an almost documentary realism about them. Up until the final gun battle the film seems like a very authentic slice of the Old West. The final gun battle is more like a traditional Hollywood western. The photography, by Jack Green ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Boxoffice MagazineBoxoffice Magazine
The new double-disc of "Unforgiven" is a sign, along with other new double disc special editions of films like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," that Warner is about to atone for its sins during the early days of DVD. The original "Unforgiven" disc is ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Boxoffice Magazine
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.com DVD review (Mary Kalin-Casey)Reel.com DVD review (Mary Kalin-Casey)
Set in the late 1800s, Unforgiven charts the deadly reawakening of retired killer William Munny (played by Eastwood himself) "a man of notoriously intemperate disposition" known for brutal, anarchistic, and typically drunken swaths of murderous behavior. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Reel.com DVD review (Mary Kalin-Casey)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Cinema ScaleThe Cinema Scale
Yes, it's stunningly photographed, well acted, and dotted with excellent dialogue. But Unforgiven is the modern classic it is especially because of its ending: few other films utterly detonate quite like this one. It's like a sack of bricks to the gut. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Cinema Scale
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for eFilmCriticeFilmCritic
A very interesting point the film brings up is the nature of rumor. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at eFilmCritic
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for DVD LardDVD Lard
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 Lard
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
[One] of the best movies of the nineties. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Film Freak Central (Bill Chambers)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for The Nick Schager Film ProjectThe Nick Schager Film Project
Yet the film belongs to Gene Hackman, who, in a superbly chilling performance, makes the corrupt, gregarious sheriff Little Bill infinitely more frightening by imbuing his arrogant villainy with a hint of rationality. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Nick Schager Film Project
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Poffy The Cucumber's Movie ManiaPoffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania
With those words, Clint Eastwood (as William Munny, west-worn killer of men, women and children, in Unforgiven) rides slowly, deliberately into the storming night, fading into the blackness - taking with him a cultural icon that he himself was ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Poffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for New York Times (Vincent Canby)New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Unforgiven is a most entertaining western that pays homage to the great tradition of movie westerns while surreptitiously expressing a certain amount of skepticism. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
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; it's well-acted by Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Movie Addict (John Ulmer)Movie Addict (John Ulmer)
[Eastwood] transcends the genre. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Movie Addict (John Ulmer)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Austin Chronicle (Louis Black)Austin Chronicle (Louis Black)
Eleven years earlier, William Munny (Eastwood) gave up the outlaw life to marry and settle down, eventually having two children. Three years ago, his wife died, and he's been struggling to make it ever since. A young punk, the Schofield Kid (Woolvett), ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Austin Chronicle (Louis Black)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Unforgiven began when writer David Webb Peoples wrote it in the 1970's -- around the same time as other adventurous screenplays like The Conversation, Chinatown, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Annie Hall were being written. Francis Coppola found it and held ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie GuideTV Guide Entertainment Network, 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. Wyoming, the 1880s. William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
Clint Eastwood returned to the Western genre in style, with this brilliant anti-violent look at the brutal lives of cowboys, lawmen and gunslingers, and the price they have to pay for such violence. It follows the last killing job of a one-time viscous ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Teen Movie Critic (Roger Davidson)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Movie-Vault.com ("Greg C.")Movie-Vault.com ("Greg C.")
Eastwood stars a William Munney, who was once one of the most fearsome and terrible killers in the West. "I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another," Munney growls at one point. But something ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Movie-Vault.com ("Greg C.")
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Unforgiven is one of the rare films where I agree with the Academy Award voters, who proclaimed it the Best Picture of 1992. It ranks among the best Westerns of all time, almost a masterpiece in its own way, revisionist in the way the characters are ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
"I do not like assassins -- or men of low character." Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood face off in one of the best westerns ever made -- make that the best western ever made -- produced some 50 years after the prime of the western era. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Reel.comReel.com
Nearly every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences faces some amount of controversy over its choice for Best Picture. But occasionally, the Oscar goes to a film that is, without a doubt, worthy of that honor. Unforgiven is just such a ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Reel.com
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Spotlight on the MoviesChristian Spotlight on the Movies
I'm sure no one could have predicted that Clint Eastwood, the star of TV's "Rawhide" and of a string of "Spaghetti Westerns," would someday direct himself in a sensitive, Oscar-winning Western that portrays the killing of any person as a tragedy. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
Unforgiven was only the third western film to land the coveted Oscar for Best Picture. It is also the only one among those three films to deserve the trophy. Clint Eastwood served as producer, director, and star, and had essentially complete control of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at filmsgraded.com (Brian Koller)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for John BeachemJohn Beachem
One of the best things about "Unforgiven" is the cast. While I'm obviously referring primarily to the three main cast members, Eastwood, Freeman, and Hackman, the entire supporting cast does a great job as well. To start with, we've got Eastwood, the ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at John Beachem
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for AboutFilm.com (Jen Walker)AboutFilm.com (Jen Walker)
With Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood has managed to not only break Western genre bounds, but also the bounds of the anti-Western, a genre he helped create with Italian director Sergio Leone. William Munny is a man with a name-and a reputation to match. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at AboutFilm.com (Jen Walker)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
The Western is a unique kind of film. I don't think that any other genre follows such rules and patterns, except maybe film noir. I'm not that big a Western fan, but I've enjoyed some of them. My favorite is probably "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", an ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Montreal Film Journal (Kevin N. Laforest)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 4.00 out of 4 stars for Orbital Reviews Orbital Reviews
After two men help cut up a prostitute for laughing at one of them, the rest of the girls at the whore house want revenge, so they offer a $1,000 reward for the murder of the two men. Upon hearing of the reward, sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Orbital Reviews
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
By 1880, Will is a poor pig farmer, a widower with two young children and long retired from his former life of crime ("my wife... cured me of drink and wickedness"). But the lure of money draws Will back into the fray. When a prostitute in the town of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Flick Filosopher (MaryAnn Johanson)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Rog Crow's Bosting ReviewsRog Crow's Bosting Reviews
Since the Sixties, this craggy faced superstar has been an icon for millions. His no-nonsense approach to film-making has delivered classic movies such as those Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns, Dirty Harry and current US blockbuster, Space ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Rog Crow's Bosting Reviews
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.75 out of 4 stars for Cutting Edge (--)Cutting Edge (--)
William Munney is een devote farmer. Zijn vrouw is een tijdje geleden gestorven en hij moet helemaal alleen instaan voor zijn twee kinderen. Al het mogelijke doet hij om de eindjes aan elkaar te knopen, tot er op een dag een jonge cowboy voor zijn deur ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Cutting Edge (--)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Deseret News, Salt Lake City Deseret News, Salt Lake City
The film then moves to a Kansas hog farm where William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is having trouble making ends meet. A young punk who calls himself the "Schofield Kid" (Jaimz Woolvett) shows up and asks Munny to join him in going after that reward. But ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
The cast of characters, broad and complex, the morality gray and realistic. Not only whores, and SKINNY (who should have armed himself), and stupid boys (one innocent but riding on the wrong side), but also wonderful characters, matching personalities of ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVD MovieGuideDVD MovieGuide
Unforgiven didn't match up to Dances success on either level. With a gross of $101 million, it performed nicely at the box office, and it also won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD MovieGuide
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 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 3.50 out of 4 stars for Kamera.co.uk Kamera.co.uk
William Munny (Clint Eastwood) is a hog farmer who travels the vengeance trail from Kansas to Wyoming, picking up a family of misfits in the process - a black farmer married to a Native American, a short-sighted kid with growing pains, a victimised young ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Kamera.co.uk
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Unforgiven is one of the rare films where I agree with the Academy Award voters, who proclaimed it the Best Picture of 1992. It ranks among the best Westerns of all time, almost a masterpiece in its own way, revisionist in the way the characters are ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for UpcomingDiscs.com (Gino Sassani)UpcomingDiscs.com (Gino Sassani)
Long before tough cop Dirty Harry made our day, Clint Eastwood defined the modern western with his Spaghetti Westerns. It is no surprise that a Western would define Clint Eastwood as an Academy Award winning producer and director. Unforgiven is ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Gino Sassani)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for The Vagrant Café - Christian Cinema (Seth Studer)The Vagrant Café - Christian Cinema (Seth Studer)
In Luke's gospel, we read how Christ would tell a specific parable to the haughty and self-righteous. This parable dealt with a Pharisee and a tax collector who prayed side-by-side in the Temple. The Pharisee prayed, "God, I thank You that I am not like ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at The Vagrant Café - Christian Cinema (Seth Studer)
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVD ReviewDVD Review
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. ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Review
Unforgiven (1992) scores a combined 3.50 out of 4 stars for DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)
Unforgiven was among the first DVDs Warner released in 1997, and it's a welcome sight as one of the earliest launch titles on this new high definition format as well. Unforgiven is a remarkable achievement, and those who have yet to see this ...read the complete Unforgiven movie review at DVD Talk (Adam Tyner)
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by randomrjs on July 17, 2009 Columbus, Ohio
It seems like Eastwood wanted to go back and take a part all of the rolls he had played in his past Westerns when he took on this movie. And he makes a great movie. There are some stunning moments in this movie and a great cast. Hackman and Freeman ...
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