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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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Synopsis

Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Cast

  • Brad Pitt
  • Casey Affleck
  • Sam Shepard
  • Mary-Louise Parker
  • Sam Rockwell
  • Paul Schneider
  • Jeremy Renner
  • Garret Dillahunt
  • Zooey Deschanel
  • Michael Parks

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Metacritic

50

This fascinating relationship gets smothered in pointlessly long takes, repetitive scenes, grim Western landscapes and mumbled, heavily accented dialogue.

Metacritic review by Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter
90

One of the best Westerns of the 1970s, which represents the highest possible praise. It's a magnificent throwback to a time when filmmakers found all sorts of ways to refashion Hollywood's oldest and most durable genre.

Metacritic review by Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
Variety
60

Although not as radically defamiliarizing as Jim Jarmusch's avant-western Dead Man, Jesse James has the feel of an attic ransacked for abandoned knickknacks.

Metacritic review by J. Hoberman
J. Hoberman
Village Voice