A mixed bag of a film, elevated by a flawless cast. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 16, 2024

What really carried this movie through... it that it ends up spending most of its time on Vicky Krieps, and it becomes like a western romance.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2024

Viggo Mortenson is a wonderful actor. Unfortunately, I think he is not so wonderful a storyteller here.

Full Review | Jun 15, 2024

Viggo Mortensen is the new Robert De Niro... And he takes his filmmaking very seriously.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2024

Mortensen does not aggressively impose his vision on us, nor does he do so with the typical shoot-outs of the genre, which appear in a justified and even responsible manner. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 12, 2024

The languid pacing and fractured, nonlinear structure chime with Mortensen’s arthouse sensibilities, rather than the more traditional view of what a frontier adventure should look like.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 10, 2024

Delivering some of her lines in French, Krieps gives the movie's best performance, but The Dead Don't Hurt seems to be aiming for more than it delivers.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2024

A Western that hits many of the expected beats but which does so in an unexpected manner, being centred on a tender, loving relationship rather than gunplay and grit.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2024

A modern feeling Western that pays respect to a well worn genre whilst also ensuring it stands on its own two feet. Viggo Mortensen has crafted a beautiful piece of work that is driven by an immensely compelling performance from Vicky Krieps.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

Now Mortensen makes a bold move, essentially riding out of his own film for a spell so its plot can re-centre on Vivienne, and the particular hardships visited on women in frontier life.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

The pacing is what you would call "slow" if you don't like the movie, "deliberate" if you do.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 7, 2024

The time-jumping is Mortensen’s masterstroke and it confers a wrenching sadness on the relationship between Vivienne and Holger, even in the most open and ingenuous stages of their love.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 7, 2024

Beautifully photographed, the Nevada rockscape looks as stark as it must have done to early settlers, but without stealing attention from what is, at heart, an actor’s piece

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Viggo Mortensen can do no wrong.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 6, 2024

A film that prefers to trot, rather than gallop, through a thicket of Western clichés.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2024

Despite some pacing issues and the fact it leans a little to heavily on extended visual longeurs, this is a fine second feature from Mortensen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Viggo Mortensen is an actor I’ll see in anything, but he has indulged himself here. Westerns are at best archaic. And actors need to be directed, not to direct.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2024

Had the storytelling been more linear, The Dead Don’t Hurt would have been a more straightforward recommendation,... As it is, Mortensen’s sophomore outing shows scrappy ambition, combined with two performances that raise the quality to the next level.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2024

It’s slow and patient, which may tire some viewers, but that more tranquil energy helps to make this a more thought-provoking affair.

Full Review | Jun 5, 2024

Both a love story and an exploration of the times, The Dead Don’t Hurt is a look at what it means to be a woman in a time when women were expected to say yes, to belong to a man, any man.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2024