Western · Ranked
Best Western Films, Ranked by IQ Score
The Westerns that take the American frontier as actual cognitive material. Ranked by IQ Score.
The Western is American cinema's most foundational genre. The works on this list are the canonical entries, films that take the American frontier as actual cognitive material rather than as setting decoration for shoot-em-ups.
Anchor picks: Once Upon a Time in the West (Leone, 1968). No Country for Old Men (Coens, 2007). Unforgiven (Eastwood, 1992 Best Picture). The Searchers (Ford, 1956). The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969).
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