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 ...

Brad Pitt has been involved with a lot of good movies, but the one he considers his best is an excellent Western that flopped ...

Brad Pitt has shared a lot of love for his dark Western The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, even though the movie was largely ignored upon its release. The Assassination of ...

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 ...

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 ...

As infamous and unpredictable Jesse James (Brad Pitt) plans his next big robbery, he faces betrayal from one of those closest to him.