 "Unforgiven" received widespread acclaim.Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has a 96% approval rating based on 104 reviews, with an average rating of 8.82/10.The website's critical consensus states, "As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence."