Dead for A Dollar
Quiver Distribution | Release Date: September 30, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 2, 2022
The picture’s surface austerity and simplicity have a crystallizing effect, drawing our attention to the coldhearted, transactional nature of this world. Read full review
60
Film ThreatSumner ForbesSep 30, 2022
While Dead for a Dollar may not make one toss out their copy of The Searchers, it’s still a refreshing change of pace seeing three excellent actors in an uncommon genre. When it comes to its originality, though, we’re left watching the tumbleweeds float on by. Read full review
58
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferSep 8, 2022
Dead for a Dollar provides a decently intriguing yarn within the framework of the Western that burrows a few inches below the surface. No one can say Hill didn’t hold up his end of the deal, which may be all that matters to him in the end. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMark KeizerOct 4, 2022
Ultimately, Hill performs his duties like a man for hire in Dead For A Dollar, much like Max Borland is a man for hire down in Mexico. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanSep 8, 2022
Hill wants to “do justice” to each of these people, but the result is that Dead for a Dollar doesn’t have a dramatic core. It has actors we like to watch, doing what they do well (like Waltz playing a civilized badass), but it isn’t structured so that any of their fates gets a rise out of us. Read full review
42
ColliderErick MassotoOct 5, 2022
With the options of taking the audience on a fully-fledged bang-bang Western adventure or commenting on the genre’s issues in past decades, Dead For a Dollar chooses to do neither and wastes its stellar cast with drowsy performances which never make you root or fear for any character. Read full review
40
Time OutPhil de SemlyenSep 7, 2022
Sluggishly paced, stodgily scripted and curiously edited, it’s not so much a bullet ballet as a creaky dance across an abandoned saloon. Read full review
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