25 Definitively Best Movies EVER (According To Critics AND Fans)

13. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

Score: 92

Is this the most famous Western of all time? There is no Western genre without the image of Clint Eastwood in a poncho, scowling into the high noon sun with a cigar practically buried into the corner of his mouth.

Everything about The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is what fans will conjure up as the visual vernacular of the genre: that's how influential a piece it was and how beloved it became. The other films in Sergio Leone's trilogy are great too, of course, but this felt like the culmination, not only of a triumvirate of films but also of an entire wider body of work and it says a lot that Eastwood's career is so stories and yet this remains one of the most enduring images of the entire thing.

The visuals are stunning, the characters iconic and the swagger deeply, deeply intoxicating.

Rotten Tomatoes: 97 Audience: 97 IMDB: 89 Letterboxd: 88 Metascore: 90