What are the best Western movies of the 21st century?
Gritty neo-westerns and revisionist epics — this century gave the genre a whole new edge. Pick your favorite!
No Country for Old Men
The Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning thriller follows a hunter who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and is pursued by a relentless, cattle-bolt-wielding killer across the Texas borderlands.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Andrew Dominik's meditative epic traces the final days of legendary outlaw Jesse James and the obsessive young admirer who would ultimately betray him.
True Grit
The Coen Brothers' remake of the 1969 classic follows a determined young girl who hires a grizzled U.S. Marshal to track down her father's killer in Indian Territory.
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino's revisionist Western follows a freed slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The Revenant
Alejandro Inarritu's visceral survival epic follows frontiersman Hugh Glass as he battles the wilderness and his own men after being left for dead following a bear attack.
Hell or High Water
David Mackenzie's modern-day Western follows two brothers on a desperate bank-robbing spree across West Texas while a veteran Texas Ranger closes in on their trail.
Bone Tomahawk
S. Craig Zahler's genre-bending horror-Western follows a sheriff and his posse as they venture into hostile territory to rescue townspeople captured by a clan of cannibalistic cave dwellers.
The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion's Oscar-winning psychological Western follows a domineering rancher who torments his brother's new wife and her son on their 1920s Montana cattle ranch.
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese's epic crime drama exposes the systematic murders of Osage Nation members in 1920s Oklahoma after oil is discovered beneath their land.
3:10 to Yuma
James Mangold's tense remake pits a desperate rancher against a charming but deadly outlaw he must escort to the prison train in a dangerous journey across Arizona Territory.
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee's groundbreaking romantic drama follows two cowboys who develop a secret, decades-long love affair against the backdrop of the American West.
The Harder They Fall
Jeymes Samuel's stylish revisionist Western follows an outlaw who reassembles his gang to seek revenge against the man who murdered his parents.
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