Jarmusch's movie maintains its East Village cool at any cost -- and ends up thuddingly hollow.

| Apr 19, 2022

Part revisionist Western, part social commentary, and part hallucinatory dream.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2021

Not even the horror Westerns of the '70s and '80s approached the eeriness of Jarmusch's boldly elemental Western landscape.

| Jan 18, 2020

Dead Man is an elegiac poem of a film that examines our country's shameful history of viciousness and racism.

| Aug 14, 2019

If not the best American Western of the 1990s, then certainly the most original and unusual.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 29, 2018

Even if it accomplishes little else, Dead Man will almost certainly inspire thought and discussion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Both Blake's journey and composer Neil Young's spare, electric guitar score seem endlessly circular; and people are always asking Blake for tobacco.

| Nov 9, 2018

The landscape outside and the passengers inside become wilder and woollier with every weary mile.

| Nov 9, 2018

The film's pleasures are simply too elusive and mild to make up for a lack of narrative propulsion.

| Nov 9, 2018

I don't mean to dismiss Dead Man as worthless, or meaningless. Jarmusch just happens to express himself in a deadpan manner that just happens to have no appeal for me whatsoever. Of course, I only say this because he is an "artist."

| Nov 9, 2018

[It's a] bizarre, funny, almost mystical take on the Western

| Nov 9, 2018

[The] metaphysical context benefits enormously from the haunting musical themes that Neil Young wrote, underlining the film's psychedelic/apocalyptic edge, and from the stunning black-and-white camera work of Robby Muller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Dead Man ranks as an unusual creative effort from writer/director Jarmusch (Mystery Train). But it's certainly not for everyone. I recommend it only for avid fans of Jarmusch and Depp.

| Nov 9, 2018

When Dead Man is imagining the Wild West as an infernal landscape of death, it is furiously alive. When it tries to reflect on those images, it begins to nod out.

| Nov 9, 2018

I liked the film at its original length, and I think the shortened version is Jarmusch's best movie.

| Nov 9, 2018

In this movie, Jarmusch displays an uncanny knack of having absolutely nothing happening on the screen for long periods of time, fading to black, and then coming back with still more nothing.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 9, 2018

Blake and Nobody meander through a wilderness as shrubby and nondescript as a '50s B horror movie, all to the accompaniment of an echoey Neil Young guitar score that sounds like something Wayne Campbell made up in his basement.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 9, 2018

Dead Man is surprisingly bland. And it becomes more dull -- and more grotesque -- as it moves along.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Dead Man is a strange, slow, unrewarding movie that provides us with more time to think about its meaning than with meaning.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2018

Beautifully shot in high contrast black-and-white, Dead Man fails not because of any one particular flaw, but instead stumbles, caught in a quagmire of metaphysical constructs and Western lore.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 9, 2018