Dead for a Dollar threads the needle between traditional Westerns of Boetticher’s ilk and the more revisionist sensibilities that Hill brought to the genre in the run of them he made in the ‘90s.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 29, 2023

Sans any significant subtexts to enhance the resilience of its various characters, there’s a sense of going through the motions despite some stand out moments from a sterling Dafoe.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2023

Unfortunately, Dead for a Dollar is also one of those films you forget as soon as you’ve left the screening

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 20, 2023

... A film that, it seems, was created from beginning to end by a program that doesn't understand human emotions or behaviors. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 8, 2023

Endangered gunslingers with only good manners left. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2023

... A look at female and racial struggles that intersects with the original nature of the Western as an American genre, or product, and as a narrative artifact capable of critically reflecting on the founding values of the nation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2023

From poker games to standoffs, Dead for a Dollar lets the tension rise, occasionally blowing off a little steam with, say, a whip fight or something just as cool.

| Apr 25, 2023

Choppy and vaguely cheesy, this colour-drained Western from veteran writer-director Walter Hill holds the attention with quirky characters and situations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2023

Dead for a Dollar distills Western mythology to its fabled essence. The morality of Borlund’s life-or-death decisions is movie history that ironically echoes modern America.

| Dec 30, 2022

To make a film that espouses the timeworn virtues of a neglected American genre is one thing, but to offer it as a libation to one of its supreme stylists is quite another.

| Dec 23, 2022

Overall, it’s not bad, but just disappointing. Dead for a Dollar looks like it was made for exactly that much.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 10, 2022

Dead for a Dollar‘s weak dialogue wastes its immense star potential.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 28, 2022

While it’s slow and somewhat uninteresting visually, it sports a go-for-broke performance from Willem Dafoe and strong turns from Christoph Waltz and Rachel Brosnahan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2022

The film may be rooted in classic western ideas but it exists within the mediocrity of VOD releases and the melancholy of seeing a great director who can’t get anything made better than this.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 13, 2022

Dead for a Dollar seems simple but it isn’t. Not at all. Filled with choices to be made of the ethical variety. Though like many Westerns it is basically a case of everyone just trying not to get killed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2022

Dead for a Dollar isn’t rewriting any rules here. Still, Walter Hill puts enough effort into the areas that count, making for an enjoyable ride.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 7, 2022

Writer-director Walter Hill, 80, who’s made classic Westerns on film (The Long Riders) and for cable (Broken Trail), recharges the form with a low-budget doozy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 6, 2022

Hill’s film is your classic throwback. There is an attempt to incorporate modern themes that never truly take shape, and the film’s end turns into a typical yet effective action film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 4, 2022

“Dead For A Dollar” is a movie you absorb as you watch a filmmaker honor yet subtly subvert a genre he clearly loves.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2022

Dead for a Dollar isn’t awful, but it’s entirely forgettable.

| Oct 3, 2022