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...movie, a postwestern in the style of Robert Altman's 1971 McCabe & Mrs. Miller, is elegiac in tone, for both the soon-to-be-late Jesse James and the genre he occupies. The silky cloud of steam from a train the boys are to rob instantly locates the movie in the mists of legend. Like Ford's 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dominik's movie says, "Print the legend," but adds, see that the legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Tough to Die | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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