Highest Rated Western
Weighted toward critics
- 1
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 · John Huston
90.38/8 sources
- 2
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966 · Sergio Leone
90.28/8 sources
- 3
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Joel Coen
88.58/8 sources
- 3
The Wild Bunch
1969 · Sam Peckinpah
88.58/8 sources
- 5
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · John Ford
87.78/8 sources
- 6
Stagecoach
1939 · John Ford
87.17/8 sources
- 7
Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 · Sergio Leone
86.88/8 sources
- 8
Rio Bravo
1959 · Howard Hawks
86.57/8 sources
- 9
Red River
1948 · Howard Hawks
86.48/8 sources
- 10
The Searchers
1956 · John Ford
86.38/8 sources
- 11
Unforgiven
1992 · Clint Eastwood
85.78/8 sources
- 12
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Robert Altman
85.58/8 sources
- 13
My Darling Clementine
1946 · John Ford
84.77/8 sources
- 13
Django Unchained
2012 · Quentin Tarantino
84.78/8 sources
- 15
The Ox-Bow Incident
1943 · William A. Wellman
83.97/8 sources
- 16
High Noon
1952 · Fred Zinnemann
83.57/8 sources
- 17
Johnny Guitar
1954 · Nicholas Ray
82.87/8 sources
- 18
Hell or High Water
2016 · David Mackenzie
82.58/8 sources
- 19
Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 · John Sturges
82.26/8 sources
- 20
The Lusty Men
1952 · Nicholas Ray
82.17/8 sources
- 21
The Rider
2018 · Chloé Zhao
81.58/8 sources
- 21
Winchester '73
1950 · Anthony Mann
81.57/8 sources
- 23
Fort Apache
1948 · John Ford
81.46/8 sources
- 23
First Cow
2020 · Kelly Reichardt
81.48/8 sources
- 25
Ride the High Country
1962 · Sam Peckinpah
81.27/8 sources
- 26
For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Sergio Leone
81.08/8 sources
- 27
Shane
1953 · George Stevens
80.58/8 sources
- 28
Man of the West
1958 · Anthony Mann
79.96/8 sources
- 29
True Grit
2010 · Ethan Coen
79.88/8 sources
- 30
The Power of the Dog
2021 · Jane Campion
79.78/8 sources
- 31
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · George Roy Hill
79.48/8 sources
- 32
Giant
1956 · George Stevens
79.38/8 sources
- 33
El Dorado
1966 · Howard Hawks
78.97/8 sources
- 34
Dances with Wolves
1990 · Kevin Costner
78.78/8 sources
- 35
The Revenant
2015 · Alejandro G. Iñárritu
78.58/8 sources
- 36
3:10 to Yuma
1957 · Delmer Daves
78.47/8 sources
- 37
Deadwood: The Movie
2019 · Daniel Minahan
78.36/8 sources
- 38
True Grit
1969 · Henry Hathaway
78.07/8 sources
- 39
Sweet Country
2018 · Warwick Thornton
77.97/8 sources
- 40
Blazing Saddles
1974 · Mel Brooks
77.77/8 sources
- 40
Duck, You Sucker
1971 · Sergio Leone
77.78/8 sources
- 42
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · Clint Eastwood
77.67/8 sources
- 43
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949 · John Ford
77.58/8 sources
- 44
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · John Sturges
77.48/8 sources
- 45
Hombre
1967 · Martin Ritt
77.38/8 sources
- 46
The Shootist
1976 · Don Siegel
77.17/8 sources
- 47
The Man from Laramie
1955 · Anthony Mann
76.97/8 sources
- 48
Bacurau
2019 · Juliano Dornelles
76.88/8 sources
- 49
Django
1966 · Sergio Corbucci
76.78/8 sources
- 50
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Joel Coen
76.57/8 sources
- 50
A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Sergio Leone
76.58/8 sources
- 50
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
2005 · Tommy Lee Jones
76.58/8 sources
- 53
3:10 to Yuma
2007 · James Mangold
76.48/8 sources
- 54
The Misfits
1961 · John Huston
76.38/8 sources
- 54
Old Yeller
1957 · Robert Stevenson
76.37/8 sources
- 56
Meek's Cutoff
2011 · Kelly Reichardt
76.27/8 sources
- 57
Hud
1963 · Martin Ritt
75.88/8 sources
- 58
The Westerner
1940 · William Wyler
75.57/8 sources
- 58
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Andrew Dominik
75.58/8 sources
- 58
Jeremiah Johnson
1972 · Sydney Pollack
75.58/8 sources
- 61
Little Big Man
1970 · Arthur Penn
75.47/8 sources
- 61
The Professionals
1966 · Richard Brooks
75.47/8 sources
- 63
3 Godfathers
1948 · John Ford
75.38/8 sources
- 64
The Hateful Eight
2015 · Quentin Tarantino
75.28/8 sources
- 65
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973 · Sam Peckinpah
75.17/8 sources
- 65
The Nightingale
2018 · Jennifer Kent
75.17/8 sources
- 67
The Big Country
1958 · William Wyler
74.77/8 sources
- 68
Rango
2011 · Gore Verbinski
74.68/8 sources
- 69
Sergeant Rutledge
1960 · John Ford
74.57/8 sources
- 69
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959 · John Sturges
74.56/8 sources
- 69
The Proposition
2005 · John Hillcoat
74.58/8 sources
- 72
The Great Train Robbery
1903 · Edwin S. Porter
74.46/8 sources
- 72
High Plains Drifter
1973 · Clint Eastwood
74.48/8 sources
- 74
The Sisters Brothers
2018 · Jacques Audiard
74.38/8 sources
- 75
Old Henry
2021 · Potsy Ponciroli
74.26/8 sources
- 76
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954 · Stanley Donen
73.98/8 sources
- 77
The Harder They Fall
2021 · Jeymes Samuel
73.27/8 sources
- 78
El Topo
1970 · Alejandro Jodorowsky
73.18/8 sources
- 79
Rancho Notorious
1952 · Fritz Lang
72.97/8 sources
- 80
Broken Arrow
1950 · Delmer Daves
72.87/8 sources
- 80
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
2008 · Kim Jee-woon
72.87/8 sources
- 82
Open Range
2003 · Kevin Costner
72.78/8 sources
- 83
Dead Man
1995 · Jim Jarmusch
72.47/8 sources
- 83
Slow West
2015 · John Maclean
72.47/8 sources
- 85
Bone Tomahawk
2015 · S. Craig Zahler
72.37/8 sources
- 85
Viva Zapata!
1952 · Elia Kazan
72.37/8 sources
- 87
Hondo
1953 · John Farrow
72.17/8 sources
- 88
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970 · Sam Peckinpah
71.96/8 sources
- 89
My Name Is Nobody
1973 · Tonino Valerii
71.68/8 sources
- 89
Westworld
1973 · Michael Crichton
71.67/8 sources
- 91
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · John Ford
71.17/8 sources
- 92
News of the World
2020 · Paul Greengrass
71.08/8 sources
- 92
Pale Rider
1985 · Clint Eastwood
71.07/8 sources
- 92
Oklahoma!
1955 · Fred Zinnemann
71.06/8 sources
- 95
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965 · Henry Hathaway
70.67/8 sources
- 96
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 · Joseph L. Mankiewicz
70.46/8 sources
- 97
El Mariachi
1993 · Robert Rodriguez
70.27/8 sources
- 98
Hostiles
2017 · Scott Cooper
70.18/8 sources
- 99
Rio Grande
1950 · John Ford
70.06/8 sources
- 99
Vera Cruz
1954 · Robert Aldrich
70.07/8 sources