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Dead Man
Directed by
Jim Jarmusch
R
1996
2h 2m
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7.5
69%
88%
7.3
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On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
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Cast of Dead Man
Johnny Depp
William Blake
Gary Farmer
Nobody
Crispin Glover
Train Fireman
Lance Henriksen
Cole Wilson
Michael Wincott
Conway Twill
Eugene Byrd
Johnny 'The Kid' Pickett
John Hurt
John Scholfield
Robert Mitchum
John Dickinson
Iggy Pop
Salvatore 'Sally' Jenko
Gabriel Byrne
Charlie Dickinson
Jared Harris
Benmont Tench
Mili Avital
Thel Russell
Jimmie Ray Weeks
Marvin, Older Marshal
Mark Bringelson
Lee, Younger Marshal
John North
Mr. Olafsen
Alfred Molina
Trading Post Missionary
Billy Bob Thornton
Big George Drakoulious
Michelle Thrush
Nobody's Girlfriend
Gibby Haynes
Man with Gun in Alley
Richard Boes
Man with Wrench
Dead Man Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Both Blake's journey and composer Neil Young's spare, electric guitar score seem endlessly circular; and people are always asking Blake for tobacco.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The landscape outside and the passengers inside become wilder and woollier with every weary mile.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
The film's pleasures are simply too elusive and mild to make up for a lack of narrative propulsion.
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
I don't mean to dismiss Dead Man as worthless, or meaningless. Jarmusch just happens to express himself in a deadpan manner that just happens to have no appeal for me whatsoever. Of course, I only say this because he is an "artist."
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
[The] metaphysical context benefits enormously from the haunting musical themes that Neil Young wrote, underlining the film's psychedelic/apocalyptic edge, and from the stunning black-and-white camera work of Robby Muller.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Betty Jo Tucker
Dead Man ranks as an unusual creative effort from writer/director Jarmusch (Mystery Train). But it's certainly not for everyone. I recommend it only for avid fans of Jarmusch and Depp.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
When Dead Man is imagining the Wild West as an infernal landscape of death, it is furiously alive. When it tries to reflect on those images, it begins to nod out.
Los Angeles Times
Jack Mathews
I liked the film at its original length, and I think the shortened version is Jarmusch's best movie.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
In this movie, Jarmusch displays an uncanny knack of having absolutely nothing happening on the screen for long periods of time, fading to black, and then coming back with still more nothing.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Blake and Nobody meander through a wilderness as shrubby and nondescript as a '50s B horror movie, all to the accompaniment of an echoey Neil Young guitar score that sounds like something Wayne Campbell made up in his basement.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Chris Hicks
Dead Man is surprisingly bland. And it becomes more dull -- and more grotesque -- as it moves along.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Dead Man is a strange, slow, unrewarding movie that provides us with more time to think about its meaning than with meaning.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Beautifully shot in high contrast black-and-white, Dead Man fails not because of any one particular flaw, but instead stumbles, caught in a quagmire of metaphysical constructs and Western lore.
PopMatters
Sean Murphy
What was obvious in 1995-and the last quarter century has made increasingly clear-is that Dead Man, aside from merely being a quiet masterpiece, is one of the best American films of the late '90s.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
a singular piece of generic transgression, making the unmaking of the West-something that filmmakers had been doing to various degrees for decades-feel shockingly, aggressively, and poetically new.
Newsweek
David Ansen
I won't pretend that Jarmusch's austere poetry will speak to everyone...No matter. This strange, mystical Western is his most daring work -- his best since Stranger Than Paradise.
Slant Magazine
Zach Campbell
Jim Jarmusch's most stunning achievement.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Coy to a fault, the movie collapses under its own weight with 90 minutes to go, despite Robby MÃuller's impressive black-and-white photography, which puts the film on a higher artistic plane than other equally unbearable movies.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A quantum leap by American independent Jim Jarmusch-a hypnotic and beautiful black-and-white western.
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