‘Dead Souls’ Review: Alex Cox Betrays His Talent — Again — in His Latest Arid Didactic Western Doodle

The film starts as a mystery, but once that’s solved, the only real mystery is why Alex Cox tied his film career to a stone marked "retro Marxist Western punk pretension" and then threw that stone into the water and plunged down after it, sinking to the bottom.

By Owen Gleiberman