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The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

2007

Andrew Dominik

Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Paul Schneider ...

6.5

25,895

Western. Drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford delves into the private life and public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and unpredictable Jesse James plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money--and the glory--riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life may ultimately come from those he trusts the most.

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"The nervy style of this newfangled Western, with its eerie, insinuating score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, is so effective that long after Pitt and Affleck have left the screen, emotional disturbance lingers like gun smoke"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Pitt is himself a supernova luminary, of course, and part of the attraction of this film is how his celebrity feeds into that of his character, adding shadings to what is, finally, an overconceptualized if under-intellectualized endeavor"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie has the space and freedom of classic Western epics (...) Yes, it is long, at 160 minutes. There is a sense that an epic must have duration to have importance (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Slow-moving, but gripping and tremendously observed picture (...) Brad Pitt is an excellent James (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A ravishing, magisterial, poetic epic that moves its characters toward their tragic destinies with all the implacability of a Greek drama"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"An extraordinary and visionary study of a legendary murderer's famous fate, within touching distance of Oscars (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Artfully exciting and compulsively watchable even at a butt-numbing 152 minutes (...) Brad Pitt totally nails it as Jesse James (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Pitt's subtle work—relaxed and confident, yet seething with quiet menace—is complemented beautifully by Affleck's enigmatic Ford"	POS

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