Don’t listen to the studio Warner Bros., which has already withdrawn its support, or the box-office, which is considered paltry for a Brad Pitt film, but “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” is one of the best films of the year.
This melancholy Western harkens back to the elegiac efforts of the 1970s-the chilly white and burnished gold of “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” the Mother Nature ecstasies of “Days of Heaven,” the brooding and ironic meditation on celebrity in the little-known but ingenious Charles Bronson film, “From Noon to Three.”
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