Dead Souls

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Dead Souls

2025

1h 29m

Drama

Western

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10 Reviews

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Strindler appears in a small Arizona desert town. It is 1890, the year of the Census. He is paying money for the names of Dead Mexicans. No one knows why....

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

Aug 17, 2026

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.

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Beatrice Loayza

New York Times

Aug 13, 2026

Dead Souls makes for a riotous swan song.

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Peter Sobczynski

RogerEbert.com

Jul 22, 2026

3.5/4

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

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Chris Cassingham

In Review Online

Aug 21, 2026

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

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Armond White

National Review

Jul 31, 2026

The insurgency of Dead Souls lies in Cox’s response to American history. Western aggression also inspires Cox’s own outsider’s awe -- and it’s musical.

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Betsy Sherman

Arts Fuse

Jul 29, 2026

The picture ends with an assertion of identity. Alex Cox is back, and this is a good time for adventurous moviegoers to pay homage to the punk elder who has survived to where he can name in advance his own swan song.

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Les N

@Vegas628 Oct 11, 2026

Wtf was that about????

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chip A

@chipanator Sep 26, 2026

It's a skip. About the last thing I want from a movie is to be preached to about capitalism and immigration.

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Alex Cox

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Strindler

Zander Schloss

Borracho

Merritt Crocker

Crocker

María Robles

Nuria

Eric Schumacher

Mayor Avery Senator

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Strindler appears in a small Arizona desert town. It is 1890, the year of the Census. He is paying money for the names of Dead Mexicans. No one knows why....

Director: Alex Cox
Producer: Merritt Crocker, Guillermo de Oliveira
Screenwriter: Alex Cox, Gianni Garko, Alex Cox, Gianni Garko
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Exterminating Angel, Zapruder Pictures
Genre: Drama, Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 22, 2026
Runtime: 1h 29m

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