Gayle Sequeira Film Companion Oct 6, 2022

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford plays out like an elegy to a fallen idol whose worshipper has decided it's time to dismantle the pedestal.

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James Croot The Post NZ Sep 28, 2022 5/5

Not only one of the finest westerns ever made, even a decade-and-a-half on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a terrific example of the power of the art form itself.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Nov 24, 2020 3/10

Perhaps the least western Western ever made - and that's not a good sort of singularity.

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Kiko Vega Espinof Aug 8, 2019

Imperfect, beautiful, overloaded and redundant, it is one of those films that will still be remembered and analyzed in ten years. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 6, 2019 4/4

An essential American Western that deserves to be ranked among the greats.

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Gary Shannon The Young Folks Jan 7, 2019 10/10

Stands as perhaps the greatest inquiry into the myth of the "Old West."

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David Jenkins Time Out Feb 6, 2018 3/5

Pitt, toying with his death-wish like some private joke, is eminently watchable in a role with little developmental arc; while Affleck, as his unwitting nemesis, takes his own mysterious integrity right to the grave.

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Jordan Raup The Film Stage Sep 22, 2017 A+

An early-established folkloric weight and timelessness runs throughout Dominik's neo-western masterpiece.

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Dan Jardine Cinemania Mar 24, 2013 85/100

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.

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Nell Minow Movie Mom Feb 14, 2012 B

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Ben Kenigsberg Time Out Nov 17, 2011 4/5

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Jeff Otto ReelzChannel.com Feb 9, 2011 6/10

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Nick Rogers Midwest Film Journal Sep 25, 2010 4/4

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.

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Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Aug 27, 2009

Cinematic aerophagia

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Dragan Antulov Index.hr Jul 15, 2009 5/10

ovaj film zahtijeva mnogo strpljenja od prosje%u010Dnog gledatelja

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JimmyO JoBlo's Movie Network Dec 27, 2008 10/10

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.

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Bob Mondello NPR.org Oct 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.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Oct 2, 2008 B

Stylized like a Ken Burns documentary.

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Christopher Orr The New Republic Sep 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.

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Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Jun 13, 2008 3.5/5

This film is far too long but the central relationship of James and Ford is fascinating.

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