Get people to name Ridley Scott’s best movie and you’ll hear “Gladiator,” “Alien” or “Blade Runner,” but one of his finest in recent years is a film almost nobody saw in theaters. That movie is “The Last Duel,” a brutal, brilliant medieval drama from 2021 that flopped hard on release, but is getting its second wind on streaming thanks to platforms like Tubi.

Directed by Scott and based on Eric Jager’s book, “The Last Duel” dramatizes the true story of the last legally sanctioned duel to the death in medieval France. It tells the same events three times, “Rashomon”-style, from three different points of view, with the final version belonging to the woman at the center of it all. It pulled in just $30 million at the box office against a $100 million budget, but critics admired it, and in the years since it’s come to be regarded as one of Scott’s best films.

Now that it's streaming free on Tubi, there's no excuse not to give one of the most underrated movies of the decade the attention it always deserved.

J ean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) are close friends in 14th-century France, two men who once fought side by side in battle. But they couldn’t be more different. Carrouges is a proud, hot-tempered knight who feels the world owes him more than it’s given him, while Le Gris is charming, educated and quick to rise in the favor of their powerful lord, Count Pierre d’Alençon (Ben Affleck).

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