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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Boston Globe Wesley Morris "...it's gorgeous, but long, cumbersome, and slightly shallow." more... B- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert 'The movie has the space and freedom of classic Western epics." more... A- Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "...heralds a major director on the rise." more... A- E! Online N.V. Cooper "...an absolute misfire." more... C- Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum "...a haunting retelling of one of the enduring outlaw sagas in American culture..." more... A   filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell "Stodgy and deathly slow, Jesse James takes the longest route possible to an anticipated resolution." more... C   Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Pretension and vacuity sabotage a potentially terrific tale of celebrityhood." more... C+ Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan "Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck pull their weight, but the long, ambitious, indulgent epic is only occasionally successful." more... B- New York Post Lou Lumenick "...a gorgeous snooze..." more... D+ New York Times Manohla Dargis "...adds another gauzy chapter to the overtaxed James myth, if not much rhyme or reason, heart or soul." more... C+ ReelViews James Berardinelli "Parts of the movie are brilliant in a Terrence Malick-inspired way, but the lugubrious middle section is badly in need of the hand of a ruthless editor." more... B- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...one hell of a satisfying surprise." more... A- San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub "Who would have imagined that a biopic about Jesse James could be so boring?" more... C   Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker "...a criminal life idealized by memory and glorified in the telling, even in the face of its tawdry realities." more... A- USA Today Claudia Puig "...a wondrously contemplative and poetic saga that offers a fresh and bewitching take on a timeworn genre." more... A   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)