The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford plays out like an elegy to a fallen idol whose worshipper has decided it's time to dismantle the pedestal.

| Oct 6, 2022

Not only one of the finest westerns ever made, even a decade-and-a-half on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a terrific example of the power of the art form itself.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 28, 2022

Perhaps the least western Western ever made - and that's not a good sort of singularity.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 24, 2020

Imperfect, beautiful, overloaded and redundant, it is one of those films that will still be remembered and analyzed in ten years. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 8, 2019

An essential American Western that deserves to be ranked among the greats.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Stands as perhaps the greatest inquiry into the myth of the "Old West."

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jan 7, 2019

Pitt, toying with his death-wish like some private joke, is eminently watchable in a role with little developmental arc; while Affleck, as his unwitting nemesis, takes his own mysterious integrity right to the grave.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 6, 2018

An early-established folkloric weight and timelessness runs throughout Dominik's neo-western masterpiece.

| Original Score: A+ | Sep 22, 2017

Affleck manages to strike so many right notes, that by the end of the film, it is easy to forget what a loathsome toady he was at film's start, and you cannot help but feel real pain as Ford's inevitably sad fate unravels before our eyes.

| Original Score: 85/100 | Mar 24, 2013

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 9, 2011

Examining the transient nature of memories and mythmaking, "Coward" understands there are as many crooked legacies in high definition, as there were 130 years ago in dog-eared dime-store paperbacks and ghoulish stage productions.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

Cinematic aerophagia

| Aug 27, 2009

ovaj film zahtijeva mnogo strpljenja od prosje%u010Dnog gledatelja

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 15, 2009

As the coward Robert Ford, Casey Affleck is a revelation. Nothing you have seen from him will prepare you for his brilliant work as the childlike young man who goes on to be the downfall of his hero.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 27, 2008

Writer-director Andrew Dominik takes his time with the story, but his languorous pacing allows tension to build -- and permits the actors, Affleck in particular, to add nuance and depth to characters who'll seem familiar only at first glance.

| Oct 18, 2008

Stylized like a Ken Burns documentary.

| Original Score: B | Oct 2, 2008

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is the story...of the moment in America when myth was murdered by mere celebrity and we were left, perhaps forever, with only the latter's meager consolations.

| Sep 18, 2008

This film is far too long but the central relationship of James and Ford is fascinating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 13, 2008