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 scorePublicationBy date
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 29, 2022
It’s solidly and proudly a B picture, as the Boetticher dedication makes clear. But in an age of blockbuster bloat and streaming cynicism, a solid B movie — efficiently shot (by Lloyd Ahern II) and effectively acted (by everyone) is something of a miracle. Hill had a job to do. He did it. That’s worth something. Read full review
75
Original-CinLiam LaceySep 29, 2022
Walter Hill’s new film Dead for a Dollar is in some ways your grandpa’s Western, a big-sky drama full of horses, hats, guns, hairpin plot turns and an ensemble of colourfully drawn characters. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennySep 6, 2022
This story is bound to lead to several showdowns at once, and the action climax is beautifully orchestrated by Hill: it’s suspenseful, jarring, and never descends to formal cheating of narrative cheapness to give the audience what it wants and deserves. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurraySep 29, 2022
This is not an epic; nor is it meant to be. It’s a snappy story about a bunch of violent men — and one particular woman, anxious to get clear of them. Read full review
70
Screen DailyLee MarshallSep 8, 2022
Dead for a Dollar is a revisionist western served up in a traditional twine-tied package. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinSep 8, 2022
Although Hill certainly puts in a few sly tips of the hat to canonical and cult favorites and is clearly enjoying exploiting the audience’s expectations of the genre, Dead for a Dollar isn’t an empty nostalgia exercise. Nor is it a revisionist postmodern deconstruction. It’s somewhere between the two, built on a narrative architecture as classical in its vernacular as Doric columns on a bank, but with details that will surely remind audiences of the future that it was made in the 2020s. Read full review
67
IndieWireSophie Monks KaufmanSep 8, 2022
Despite a hectic list of characters and their grievances, the plot is not tightly constructed and scans, for stretches, like a hang-out movie. Read full review
67
The Film StageRory O'ConnorSep 8, 2022
Dead for a Dollar is derivative by nature, but not in unpleasing ways. Read full review
65
TheWrapBen CrollSep 8, 2022
Dead for a Dollar is a proud heir to a longstanding lineage of low-budget westerns. Consider that a feature and a bug. Read full review
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