The Dead Don’t Hurt is clearly the work of a filmmaker getting to make what he wanted. The result is admirable, if generally just okay.

It is like watching a horror movie where all of the wounds are internal.

The Sisters Brothers plays with western conventions, but not in a mocking or showy way. It does that for the sake of its characters, instead

Scott Cooper does not use a traditional western, good guys vs bad guys, formula. All of his key characters reside mainly in gray areas.