![]() Ahmed is fascinating as the movie’s smartest character, a man who dreams of a utopian society and thinks he knows how to achieve it. And their interplay is delightfully pugnacious, making it all the more remarkable that this is Audiard’s very first English-language film.Īs it trundles along, and the bodycount inexorably rises, it develops into a four-hander. ![]() Other than the times when the character is blearily napping atop his moving horse, Phoenix hasn’t been this spry on film for years. Phoenix, meanwhile, has a rare twinkle in his eye as hard-drinking, slightly mad Charlie. Watching him get to grips with a toothbrush, a miraculous new invention in mid-19th century America, is like watching Homo erectus sizing up fire. ![]() As the sensitive, prickly, blabbery Eli, Reilly (who was the main force in getting Patrick deWitt’s source novel turned into a film) is tremendous, bringing to life a sweet soul who pines for the girl he left behind (“It’s a shawl!” Eli scowls when his brother refers to the fragranced item he carries everywhere as a “silly red scarf”). ![]() Wry as the whole thing may be, the two titular characters slowly win your heart. ![]() Gives a fresh jolt of electricity to the Old American West. ![]()
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