The title is really long, and so is the film, but it has every reason to be. Filling his characters’ curt conversations with pauses, director Andrew Dominik uses the epic length to go places in the ...

No eulogies. Whether or not you've seen this film before, this is a must-attend event if you're in New York. We're helping promote an event at the Museum of the Moving Image, a revival screening of ...

And a nobody named Robert Ford -- a Jesse James groupie in his early 20s, a follower dazzled by his fame and glory -- shot an unarmed James, 34, from behind on April 3, 1882, and became famous himself ...

Robert Ford: Well, he was gonna kill me. Dorothy Evans: So you were scared and that's the only reason? Robert Ford: Yeah. And the reward money. Dorothy Evans: Do you want me to change the subject?

It is not a Western. It is not shoot-’em-up action. It is not even a history lesson. Instead, “Assassination,” based on a novel by Ron Hansen, is even better: It’s an intense character study of the ...

Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Into the Wild and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal ...