There have been some epic Westerns of the last 25 years from Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant to No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood and True Grit.

But the most underrated of them all was tragically overlooked for Oscars when it released in 2017.

Written and directed by Scott Cooper, Hostiles stars Christian Bale as a US Army cavalry officer in 1892 New Mexico territory.

He and a detail are ordered by the president to escort a cancer-stricken Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his…