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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.…