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15. The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
> Composite index score: 2.62
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (69,738 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (46,848 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 90% (41 reviews)
> Directed by: Clint Eastwood
> Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Chief Dan George
Clint Eastwood’s fifth directorial effort takes cues from the violent revisionist Westerns in which he previously starred. After his family is brutally murdered, Josey Wales (Eastwood) enacts revenge and then goes into hiding. Filmmaker Philip Kaufman co-wrote the screenplay.
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14. Hamlet (1996)
> Composite index score: 2.64
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (37,113 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (32,629 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 95% (56 reviews)
> Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
> Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi
While not the first film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 version is the only one to present the source material in its entirety. He plays the title character, who must avenge his father’s death over the course of a four-hour runtime. “A work of tremendous personal ambition equipped with a budget nearly equal in magnitude,” wrote Slant critic Rob Humanick.
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13. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
> Composite index score: 2.65
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (657,818 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (405,182 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 90% (271 reviews)
> Directed by: Clint Eastwood
> Starring: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
Clint Eastwood was in the midst of a directorial comeback when he helmed this harrowing sports drama. Hilary Swank delivers a breakout performance as boxer Maggie Fitzgerald, who rises in the ranks with help from an aging trainer (Eastwood). It made over $216 million at the worldwide box office and won four Academy Awards, three of which were in major categories.
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