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Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
Unforgiven brought the revisionist revenge film into the 1990s and, by extension, the 21st century
Unforgiven (許されざる者)
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- Japan
- 2013
- · 135m
Director
Lee Sang-il
Cast
Ken Watanabe,
Koichi Sato,
Akira Emoto,
Yuya Yagira,
Shiori Kutsuna,
Eiko Koike
Genre
Action,
Crime,
Drama
Hokkaido, Japan, 1880s. Jubei Katama sides with the Edo shogunate government, killing many people. Ten years later, he lives with his son, barely able to make a living. He has vowed to never again pick up a sword, but poverty gives him no choice, and he must become a bounty hunter.
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What are critics saying?
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Wall Street Journal by Julie Salamon
It's powerful entertainment. [22 Sept 1992, p.A16(E)]
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The New Yorker by Michael Sragow
Under its leathery hide is a genuine compulsion to de-romanticize Western gunfighting. Every bullet in this movie matters, and by the end Munny's alcohol-fuelled, satanic purposefulness is shocking: in the climax, even his choice of victims has a crazy excess. [10 Aug 1992, p.70]
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Austin Chronicle by Louis Black
But in the genre, as both a movie and a conscious addition to the ongoing celluloid Western mythology, the film is a masterpiece, a stunning and awe-inspiring statement.
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Time by Richard Corliss
Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. [10 Aug 1992]
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Rolling Stone by 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.
100
Chicago Tribune by Dave Kehr
This dark, melancholic film is a reminder -- never more necessary than now -- of what the American cinema is capable of, in the way of expressing a mature, morally complex and challenging view of the world. [7 Aug 1992]
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TV Guide Magazine by Staff (Not Credited)
The cast is universally strong. Hackman, Freeman and Harris don't do anything they haven't done before, but the roles suit their personae to a degree where they approach archetypal status.
100
Variety by Todd McCarthy
Clint Eastwood has crafted a tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn that is also an exceedingly intelligent meditation on the West, its myths and its heroes.
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Los Angeles Times by 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]
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