Three Buri­als joins Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man as one of my few highly-rated west­erns. Like Dead Man, its tone mean­ders from the darkly comic to the melo­dra­matic, and is at times almost unwatch­ably grue­some. Which does noth­ing to explain why I liked it, I know.

Spe­cial men­tion to Barry Pep­per for tak­ing what must be one of the most thank­less roles in movie his­tory: his char­ac­ter is a onanis­tic racist brute, beaten, dragged by a horse, forced at gun­point to dis­in­ter a corpse, bit­ten by a rat­tlesnake, and not the least of which, spends a good part of the movie with his pants down (come to think of it, so does Dwight Yoakam).

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