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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader. When he senses an opportunity to kill Jesse, he guns him down, but his actions backfire...
9 January 1961, Fleetwood, England, UK
14 September 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 April 1940, Corona, California, USA
18 August 1983, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
25 October 1944, Carville, Louisiana, USA
29 May 1957, Bellaire, Ohio, USA
28 February 1928, Dayton, Ohio, USA
October 20, 2007
Awesome splendor and a striking essay on celebrity reward those who brave the 2 1/2-hour run time.
October 18, 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.
September 25, 2010
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.
February 22, 2008
When Ford finally pulls the trigger, it's a relief as the flick's final ten minutes spin into actually interesting terrain
July 06, 2010
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is an engrossing and hypnotic western that places a heavy emphasis on atmosphere, character and reality.
October 18, 2007
It's a view of the West beyond the myth that's worth enduring, if not relishing.
July 15, 2009
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January 04, 2008
Moseying along for 160 minutes, this revisionist western by writer-director Andrew Dominik makes a wan attempt to present the Jesse James legend as the dawn of celebrity culture in America.
December 27, 2008
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.
March 24, 2013
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.
September 18, 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.

