'90s Westerns
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'90s Westerns

Call it a comeback! Which late 20th-century cowboy flick deserves top billing?

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1 Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood's grim gunfighter tale turns the conventional ingredients of the Western into the stuff of Greek tragedy.
45 79
2 Tombstone
Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer breathe new life into the legend of Wyatt Earp. Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton round out the cast.
42 84
3 Dances with Wolves
Great storytelling helped Kevin Costner's epic nab Best Picture at the Oscars, despite its three-hour length.
29 87
4 Quigley Down Under
Tom Selleck's bad-ass American gunslinger breaks new ground by moving the operation to Australia.
21 75
5 Wyatt Earp
All those vast landscapes earned Lawrence Kasdan's Kevin Costner vehicle a Best Cinematography Oscar nod.
16 74
6 Geronimo: An American Legend
Director Walter Hill, no stranger to the genre (Wild Bill, Broken Trail) teams up with Jason Patric and Robert Duvall for this biopic.
2 58
7 Young Guns 2
The genre keeps it cute with Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Philips, Christian Slater, and Kiefer Sutherland.
-5 63
8 City Slickers
This fish-out-of-water comedy finds Billy Crystal and Jack Palance going head-to-head for laughs.
-14 68
9 Dead Man
Quirky director Jim Jarmusch (Down by Law) reimagines the Western, with Johnny Depp in the lead role.
-18 52
10 Posse
Mario van Peebles' tale of black cowboys is an appealing corrective to the conventional Western ethos.
-36 58
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