Why I Can’t Quite Call Unforgiven One of the Great Westerns

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Lincoln Spector

I first saw Unforgiven soon after its 1992 release. Everyone else was calling it a masterpiece, but I was deeply disappointed. Last Saturday, no longer remembering clearly why I didn’t like it,  I saw it again. Now I view it in much the same way as Apocalypse Now. For most of its runtime, it is [...]

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Second Thoughts on 3:10 to Yuma

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Lincoln Spector

On first viewing, I loved 3:10 to Yuma enough to give it an , despite a lot of problems I had with the last act. But the weeks went by, I’ve found myself more and more bothered with the movie’s inherent problems. So I’m officially downgrading it to a . Don’t get me wrong; most [...]

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