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Dillinger Is Dead

1969 · 1h 35m · NOT RATED Drama
Directed by Marco Ferreri

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Overview

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen.

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75%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Finding the connective tissue between one incident and the next can be its own form of madness, yet the film is transfixing, too, provided viewers yield to it a little.

Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh

Dillinger is one of those artful endurance tests that views conventional storytelling as a sell-out. Yet the movie's also playful, droll, and unexpectedly wise within its rigorous framework.

Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Rotten

Like an Ionesco one-act, the movie is purposely backloaded, rolling along to no apparent purpose and then climaxing with an absurd act of violence that casts a harsh white glare on the bourgeois self-indulgence that preceded it.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh

There are some sharp ideas tucked alongside the tedious high jinks and rank sexism of Dillinger Is Dead.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh

The titular gangster isn't the only one who's dead; according to Ferreri, it was a condition shared by everyone who bought into the late-20th-century ideal of success. They just didn't know it at the time.

David Fear, Time Out New York

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