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Western Movies Audiences Rated Higher Than Critics
22 western films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with audiences than with critics by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Legends of the Fall (1994), 7.5 on IMDb against 45 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legends of the Fall '1994 | Drama / Western / Romance / War | 7.5 | - | 45 | 7.4 | Edward Zwick | +30 |
| 2 | Mackenna's Gold '1969 | Action / Western | 6.7 | 20% | 37 | 6.6 | J. Lee Thompson | +30 |
| 3 | Tombstone '1993 | Western / Action | 7.8 | 76% | 50 | 7.6 | George P. Cosmatos | +28 |
| 4 | The Lone Ranger '2013 | Action / Western | 6.4 | 31% | 37 | 6.1 | Gore Verbinski | +27 |
| 5 | The Frisco Kid '1979 | Comedy / Western / Drama | 6.4 | - | 38 | 6.1 | Robert Aldrich | +26 |
| 6 | Ravenous '1999 | Western / Horror / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 52% | 46 | 6.8 | Antonia Bird | +23 |
| 7 | The Cowboys '1972 | Western / Drama / Action | 7.4 | 75% | 52 | 7.1 | Mark Rydell | +22 |
| 8 | A Man Called Horse '1970 | Western / Drama | 6.8 | 87% | 46 | 6.5 | Elliot Silverstein | +22 |
| 9 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron '2002 | Animation / Drama / Western | 7.2 | 69% | 52 | 7.7 | Kelly Asbury | +20 |
| 10 | Wyatt Earp '1994 | Western / Drama | 6.7 | 33% | 47 | 6.8 | Lawrence Kasdan | +20 |
| 11 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid '1973 | Western / Drama | 7.2 | 60% | 53 | 7.2 | Sam Peckinpah | +19 |
| 12 | Young Guns '1988 | Western | 6.8 | 43% | 50 | 6.7 | Christopher Cain | +18 |
| 13 | Support Your Local Sheriff! '1969 | Comedy / Western | 7.4 | 80% | 56 | 6.9 | Burt Kennedy | +18 |
| 14 | The Big Country '1958 | Drama / Western / Romance | 7.9 | 100% | 61 | 7.6 | William Wyler | +18 |
| 15 | A Million Ways to Die in the West '2014 | Comedy / Western | 6.1 | 33% | 44 | 6.0 | Seth MacFarlane | +17 |
| 16 | Far and Away '1992 | Drama / Romance / Western | 6.6 | 51% | 49 | 6.8 | Ron Howard | +17 |
| 17 | The Quick and the Dead '1995 | Western | 6.5 | 62% | 49 | 6.6 | Sam Raimi | +16 |
| 18 | Hud '1963 | Drama / Western | 7.8 | 86% | 62 | 7.3 | Martin Ritt | +16 |
| 19 | Paint Your Wagon '1969 | Comedy / Western / Musical | 6.6 | 45% | 50 | 6.3 | Joshua Logan | +16 |
| 20 | The Magnificent Seven '2016 | Action / Western | 6.9 | 64% | 54 | 6.5 | Antoine Fuqua | +15 |
| 21 | How the West Was Won '1962 | Western | 7.1 | 85% | 56 | 7.0 | John Ford | +15 |
| 22 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral '1957 | Western | 7.1 | 87% | 56 | 7.0 | John Sturges | +15 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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