Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. [10 Aug 1992]Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Simultaneously heroic and nihilistic, reeking of myth but modern as they come, it is a Western for those who know and chrish the form, a film that resonates with the spirit of films past while staking out a territory quite its own. [7 Aug 1992]Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Exults in the hard-riding romanticism of classic Westerns, but it takes revisionist stock too. It dismounts at places usually left in the dust -- the oppressed lot of women, the loneliness of untended children, adult illiteracy and the horrible last moments of the dying.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Unforgiven is the most provocative western of Eastwood's career, and with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris along for the ride, it's also the most potently acted.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
It's the actor/director's best movie - and the best Western by anybody in over 20 years. [7 Aug 1992]Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Vincent Canby
Unforgiven... never quite fulfills the expectations it so carefully sets up. It doesn't exactly deny them, but the bloody confrontations that end the film appear to be purposely muted, more effective theoretically than dramatically.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Staff (Not Credited)
As enjoyable as most of Unforgiven is, Eastwood's shades-of-gray moralism feels like a whitewash.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hal Hinson
If Eastwood had any emotional depth as an actor, the character's anguish might come through.Read Full Review »
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