The Western may have died in the 1970s, but we've continued to see a slow trickle of great Westerns in the last few decades . Case in point: "The Proposition," an Australian oater that not only impressed most critics, but ended up haunting the late great Roger Ebert , who evidently thought the film played like "a Western moved from Colorado to Hell."

Like Russell Crowe and Nicholas Hoult's criminally underseen Western "True History of the Kelly Gang," "The Proposition" is set in Australia rather than the traditional Old West, and stars Guy Pearce as 1880s bushranger Charlie Burns. After losing a fight with the police, the criminal is presented with the titular choice by Ray Winstone's lawman Captain Morris Stanley. What exactly is the choice? Well, it ain't a very good one. To save

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