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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Jack Mathews

    Its characters are as entertainingly quirky as any he's given us before, and his familiar themes -- strangers in a strange land, lives reformed by chance encounters -- are played out with much higher stakes and with greater purpose. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Dead Man plays a lot of cards at the same time, and Jarmusch occasionally loses his rhythm when he allows his actors their improvisational riffs. Read full review

  • 50
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    It's not a bad movie by any stretch of the imagination, just one that grabs your attention and then lets it go, time and time again. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Like his previous efforts, Jarmusch's sidelong take on Western conventions relies upon quirky tone, hipsterish performances and a highly refined visual style to put it over. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    The film's energy begins to flag after less than an hour, and as its pulse slackens it turns into a quirky allegory, punctuated with brilliant visionary flashes that partially redeem a philosophic ham-handedness. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The film has barely started, and already we can tell what we're in for -- two hours of metaphysical drift. Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Bad movies have a way of writing their own epitaphs. Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    After a promising beginning and an amusing middle, the movie gets stuck in limbo. Read full review

  • 38
    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. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    Coy to a fault, the movie collapses under its own weight with 90 minutes to go, despite Robby Muller's impressive black-and-white photography, which puts the film on a higher artistic plane than other equally unbearable movies. [16 May 1996, Pg.06.D] Read full review

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