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Dead Man (1995) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Dead Man (1995) a score of 2.7088 out of 4

based on (74) reviews

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Excellent

(11)

Very Good

(43)

Good

(19)

Fair

(1)

Poor

(0)

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Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)

The insertion of actual ideas into the film suddenly made me much more sympathetic toward the Native Americans in the film, and made the somber, elegiac tone forgivable and downright appropriate. What�s most shocking...read the complete Dead Man (1995) review at Movie Martyr (Jeremy Heilman)

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Empire (Bob McCabe)

Johnny Depp goes west, young man, and enters Jim Jarmusch's impressionistic, darkly deadpan vision of the frontier land in this elegiac, episodic and thoughtful Western. It's a tale that subtly reinterprets the genre and delivers Jarmusch's most...read the complete Dead Man (1995) review at Empire (Bob McCabe)

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Cinematter (Matt Williams)

Dead Man is a depressing revisionist black comedy artistic western. Johnny Depp plays the title character, an innocent named William Blake from Cleveland who travels the the wild western town of Machine to claim an accounting job. When factory owner...read the complete Dead Man (1995) review at Cinematter (Matt Williams)

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San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)

Particularly because unlike so many other boring movies one sees, Jarmusch films require many more words to explain the boringness than less certifiably artistic films would....read the complete Dead Man (1995) review at San Francisco Examiner (Barbara Shulgasser)