10 Great Recent Western Movies You Probably Haven't Seen

"Gone are the days when the Western genre once compromised 30% of Hollywood's output. Back then, in the postwar period until the late 1950s, every actor and their mums surely made at least one cowboy picture. As for now? Audiences are lucky if they get one a year.

What is curious though is that because the genre is seen as such a relic and is not a reliable cash-draw, it means that the people that are making Westerns in the 21st century are doing so for good reason and generally appear to have a clear vision of what they want to do. This means that the overall consistency of the genre's quality might be stronger now than any decade after the 1960s. Here are ten 21st century examples of the frontier film that slipped under the mainstream radar."

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