Is it a good movie? No, not really. But it’s one that inspires me to imagine -- as every Alex Cox movie does -- the glory of what might have been.

Dead Souls makes for a riotous swan song.

If this does prove to be Cox’s final directorial effort, it is nice to see him going out literally guns a-blazing.

Dead Souls’ power goes beyond a mere accounting of Western archetypes and penchant for subverting them. Its general scrappiness engenders...atmosphere.