One of the many charms of The Dead Don’t Hurt is that you can’t immediately tell whether it’s trying to be an old-fashioned Western or a revisionist one. It has a lot of familiar genre signposts: men ...
Viggo Mortensen’s terrific sophomore effort as a writer/director (he also composed the music) is the gorgeous Western, “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” Set during the Civil War, the film recounts the ...