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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 23

  Dominik's best film.

  Pitt's best performance.

  Deakins' best work.

  Affleck's perfect performance. That is not an exaggeration. Perfection is the only word for what he achieves here.

  Made me forget, again, that I really don't like the western genre.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★★ 13

  Never meet your heroes.

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★★★ 11

  Legend was he could stop a train by staring it down.

  The villain dies a villain's death, the coward, however, goes out alone. These golden wheat fields that never fail to make me somewhat religious reminds me of Malick's Days of Heaven, upped to a whole new level with the addition of Roger Deakins, being a ~ godsend ~ as always, stops at nothing to craft heart-stopping sequences like the opening train robbery. (Train emerging from darkness, light illuminating masked figures in the woods, Deakin's spell casted on every frame.) Brad Pitt is as menacing as Daniel Plainview, his presence is a continuous jump scare, adjusts his mask like a true fashion model, every close up of him is an ad for Prada or some other capitalist bullshit, I swear, even the wind dares not blow his direction. Just brilliant filmmaking, acting, storytelling.

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  Review by dean ★★★★★ 2

  the gaslighting of robert ford by the coward jesse james

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★ 6

  gay

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  Review by Sam Van Hallgren ★★★★★ 12

  2nd best film of the 21st century.

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  Paranoia on a cosmic scale. A myth destabilized. Dominik gives us a Jesse James who is both just a guy and also a god. Not a Christian God, but one of the unpredictable, selfish, ornery, small "g" gods. One with an uncanny way of interpreting signs, of interpreting nature. All those shots of clouds and trees are no Malick-style posturing. We're seeing the world how James sees it. How he reads it. And when we meet him in the movie it's at the very point when he stops being able to reliably read those signs. It unnerves him. The movie is exceptional because it allows you to hold these two ideas of…

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  Review by Brianna

  roger deakins kinda freaked it here

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  Review by Michael Mann Facts ★★★★★

  What was in the water in 2007…

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  Review by kayla ★★★★★ 6

  Wow this is one of the most beautifully shot movies I’ve seen. It’s breathtaking

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  Review by Thomas Flight ★★★★½ 14

  The last time I watched this I gave it 3.5 stars, and I'm here to report that I don't know what I was thinking then, I clearly did not understand this masterpiece.

  (I don't know what it says about me, but I love the feeling of going and watching a movie again you had written off before and discovering you were wrong and it's actually amazing).

  Rewatched for Cinema of Meaning Ep. 55

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★½ 7

  THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD is wonderful. Beautifully shot, terrific acting all around, great tale. That said, it is far too long.

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★★ 8

  Red Dead 2 stole this movies entire aesthetic.

  Centering around the relations between a man and his assassin, it’s got the same driving tension as Hamilton. In both works, you know what’s coming from the beginning, and it adds a new layer to every scene in which the characters interact. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

  What masterful work by Roger Deakins! I see why this is often lauded as his best work. The world breathes unlike any Western I’ve seen other than McCabe and Mrs Miller.

  Bullets feel like they land for real too. It doesn’t feel like one shot one kill, or like a bloody Tarantino movie. Some shots land, and some don’t. I really liked this…