10 Most Visually Stunning Westerns Ever Made

10. True History Of The Kelly Gang (Ari Wegner)

Starting with the most recent entry on this list, Justin Kurzel's quasi-biopic about the Australian folk legend Ned Kelly may not take place in the Old West - but it adheres to every major beat of the genre and executes it with such aplomb that it's hard to not be swept up in its blood-strewn provocation and general nihilism.

Away from its ensemble of excellent turns though, led by 1917 breakout George MacKay, it's a piece of primal filmmaking powered by its own visual language and potent poetry, captured by Ari Wenger who brings an operatic, widescreen grandeur to its relentless vision of bushranger Australia in the dying days of rural lawlessness on the far side of the world.

Wenger, who also shot Peter Strickland's horror In Fabric and the Florence Pugh-starring Lady Macbeth, arguably saves her best for last though, as in the final third, the film mutates into an acid-trip, hallucinogenic vision of a western, punctured with lurid bursts of colour and fury. It's terrifying to behold in its sound and thunder - but utterly spellbinding to watch as a piece of visual art.