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Dead Man

1995

Jim Jarmusch

Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott ...

6.9

15,263

Western Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch reaches a new plateau in his career with this poetic anti-Western. DEAD MAN follows William Blake (no, not the famous poet), an innocent young man who travels out west in order to find employment but ends up a wounded fugitive on the run from ruthless bounty hunters. Partnered with a spiritual Native American named Nobody, Blake begins to morph into the outlaw that he is mistakenly considered to be. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"The movie collapses under its own weight (...) despite Robby Mauller's impressive black-and-white photography, which puts the film on a higher artistic plane than other equally unbearable movies."	NEG
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"An existential sitcom of a western full of deadpan humor, a sort of unhurried, art-house pace and some of the strangest characters ever seen"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'Dead Man' looks and sounds like no other Western in memory (...) But the film’s pleasures are simply too elusive and mild to make up for a lack of narrative propulsion."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Looser in structure than the director's earlier work, but pervaded with the same deadpan humour and superb imagery, this is an original and very weird account of the American wilderness"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"A bizarre tale of corrupted innocence (...) No contemporary actor better conveys purity of spirit than Depp"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Audiences attuned to Mr. Jarmusch's drolly hip sensibility should be delighted with the film, but to the uninitiated, its drier patches are just as likely to induce yawns."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"A strange, slow, unrewarding movie that provides us with more time to think about its meaning than with meaning (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG

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