The impending 2026 Academy Awards has us revisiting one of our favorite Best Picture winners, which put actor/director Clint Eastwood back in the saddle for one final (some might say definitive!) foray into the darkest reaches of the Wild West.

When prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald (Anna Thomson) is disfigured by a pair of cowboys in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, her fellow brothel workers post a reward for their murder, much to the displeasure of sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), who doesn’t allow vigilantism in his town. Two groups of gunfighters, one led by aging former bandit William Munny (Clint Eastwood), the other by the florid English Bob (Richard Harris), come to collect the reward, clashing with each other and the sheriff.

“A better modern western has yet to be made.” – Times UK

Showtimes