Martyr, Messiah, Murderer: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) aims for irony but lands in hypocrisy. Both title characters shoot people in the back with premeditation—yet only one is called a “…

Brad Pitt plays Jesse James as a suicidal Christ figure in a film too cowardly to call him what he is: a charismatic thug with a body count.
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