The film is a great, beautifully acted American crime drama that chillingly refutes the heightened macho swagger that often dominates the genre.
Dominik mines an altogether different vein, worlds apart from the mournful, meditative, Malickian The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Robert Mitchum doesn’t remotely overshadow the film’s first-rate ensemble of character actors.
Downbeat ’70s crime with Beantown vowels, and a Hollywood icon’s masterful melancholy.