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| RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThis story is bound to lead to several showdowns at once, and the action climax is beautifully orchestrated by Hill: it’s suspenseful, jarring, and never descends to formal cheating of narrative cheapness to give the audience what it wants and deserves. |
| Original-CinLiam LaceyWalter Hill’s new film Dead for a Dollar is in some ways your grandpa’s Western, a big-sky drama full of horses, hats, guns, hairpin plot turns and an ensemble of colourfully drawn characters. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottIt’s solidly and proudly a B picture, as the Boetticher dedication makes clear. But in an age of blockbuster bloat and streaming cynicism, a solid B movie — efficiently shot (by Lloyd Ahern II) and effectively acted (by everyone) is something of a miracle. Hill had a job to do. He did it. That’s worth something. |
| Screen DailyLee MarshallDead for a Dollar is a revisionist western served up in a traditional twine-tied package. |
| The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinAlthough Hill certainly puts in a few sly tips of the hat to canonical and cult favorites and is clearly enjoying exploiting the audience’s expectations of the genre, Dead for a Dollar isn’t an empty nostalgia exercise. Nor is it a revisionist postmodern deconstruction. It’s somewhere between the two, built on a narrative architecture as classical in its vernacular as Doric columns on a bank, but with details that will surely remind audiences of the future that it was made in the 2020s. |
| IndieWireSophie Monks KaufmanDespite a hectic list of characters and their grievances, the plot is not tightly constructed and scans, for stretches, like a hang-out movie. |
| The Film StageRory O'ConnorDead for a Dollar is derivative by nature, but not in unpleasing ways. |
| TheWrapBen CrollDead for a Dollar is a proud heir to a longstanding lineage of low-budget westerns. Consider that a feature and a bug. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThis is not an epic; nor is it meant to be. It’s a snappy story about a bunch of violent men — and one particular woman, anxious to get clear of them. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriThe picture’s surface austerity and simplicity have a crystallizing effect, drawing our attention to the coldhearted, transactional nature of this world. |
