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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh Page   1   3/5 "Fact is, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford should have been better. It should have followed the real focus on the story and done away with at least an hour of subplotting."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "The titular act of violence is the best scene in the film, radiating a kind of unavoidable fatality that elevates the lethal gunshot from a just another bang to something triggering a very strong sense of epochal change."   european-films.net   Boyd van Hoeij A- "Casey Affleck gives an outstanding performance that proves him to be a character actor of immense creativity, clarity and composure."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Slowly paced and almost painfully detailed, Andrew Dominik's film more than fulfills the promise of Chopper (2000), another study of the violence inherent in celebrity."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3.5/4 "One of the most cinematically assured works of the year. Blows most tried-and-true westerns out of the water."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "An idyll for a cherished figure -- you know, the one who committed dozens of robberies and murdered at least 17 people."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "Aside from the movie's mouthful title, this [is a] contemplative and carousing exposition. [The] prairie-induced pathos is plenty to digest with absolute reverence."   World Voice News   Frank Ochieng A "The cinematic equivalent of a Homeric epic...an ambitious, mesmerizing evocation of the mystique of celebrity and the strange mixture of admiration and envy it generates."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek A "Dominik's film may be lengthy, but it's never digressive nor superfluous; he knows exactly where he's been going the entire time."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2.5/4 "Parts of the movie are brilliant in a Terrence Malick-inspired way, but the lugubrious middle section is badly in need of the hand of a ruthless editor."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "While Pitt is fine here -- he's as enigmatic and half-seen as you'd want an icon to be -- it's Affleck who impresses."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 3.5/4 "Capricious, meditative and absorbing."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 9/10 "A slow roast of a movie that seals in all the flavors."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2/4 "Unforgivably slow and over-titled attempt to dramatize the ignoble murder of the notorious outlaw features a fine performance by Casey Affleck as Ford."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 6/10 "...it's got a title that perfectly matches its subject matter: They're both too long by half."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Loping, lyrical, contemplative, poetic, Malick-meets-David Gordon Green style."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 4/5 "anadomei ohi mono tin eikona, tin aisthisi kai ti myrodia toy Far Oyest me ton paliomoditiko tropo grafis kai anaptyksis toy, alla kai ena panemorfo, stoiheiotiko, lito portraito tis amerikanikis ekdohis tis ennoias toy thryloy eikonografimenoy"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis A "...a quintessential work of the American Western genre. Brad Pitt gives the best performance of his career..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "I love the tone writer/director Andrew Dominik establishes in the film; it's the dragging-it-out-to-160-minutes part that gets me down."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "A measured, brooding meander through dreams of loyalty, shadows of treachery, and the particular psychoses of celebrity for those on both sides of stardom..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3.5/5 "A suspenseful, yet dramatic Western."   Film Threat   Matthew Sorrento 3.5/4 "This is the kind of picture that isn't afraid to put its characters under a microscope, and it knows that studying their psychology is far more rewarding than studying their gun-slinging skills."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "It is a broody psychological Western, a lot of peering out into endless prairie landscapes, as much Ingmar Bergman as John Ford, with a little bit of Heathcliff thrown in."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 3.5/4 "Steeped in the lyrical fatalism of that last great decade for the western, the '70s, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford owes a debt to myriad spiritual ancestors."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "Andrew Dominik has taken the familiar story and reconstructed it is such a fascinatingly abstract manner that it feels as if we are watching it unfold before our eyes for the very first time."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4.5/5 "Written, filmed and acted with real beauty and skill. And it has something powerful to say about today's celebrity-obsessed culture."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "The sheer craftsmanship on display ensures a modicum of goodwill, but at two hours and 40 minutes, even the most patient souls may begin to squirm."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "A sprawling, melancholy epic anti-Western."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 7/10 "A creepy and daring look into one of the most destructive, and self-destructive of American anti-heroes"   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson A- "This cinematic folk song embraces and celebrates the chasm between idealized outlaw myth and the unglamorous realities of frontier thievery."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/5 "We are told a lot about Jesse James during the elongated run time -- but learn very little about the man at all."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford represents a breakthrough in the moviegoing experience. It may be the first time we've been asked to watch a book on tape."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek B+ "Best name for a western of any film in history."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 4/10 "When a film runs 2 hrs. 40 min., it's often because the writer is directing - so there's no one to tell him to trim 40 min. - or else!"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 10/10 "An astounding work of mythological storytelling."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 4/4 "Heroically pretentious."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 78% Fresh Page   1