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Unpredictable, offbeat and peppered with absurdist humour

The film's charm is the feeling of spontaneity and randomness.

Jarmusch usually manages to invest his films with a quirky sense of humour, but here the lines fall decidedly flat.

A western for sleepwalkers and dreamers.

Forest Whitaker's presence is so forceful that you don't want to think about the absurdity of his character.

Jim Jarmusch has always been great at extracting stories from his subjects. Here, his role is focused more on containment.

Be throughly out-cooled by America's finest hipster.

The coolest kid on the indie block has a truly distinctive voice.

I suspect even Jarmusch’s most ardent fans will find longeurs.

Its hyperreal colours and iconic tableaux ooze retro chic.

It's largely in Jarmusch's preferred genre of tittering, offbeat comedy, though, and he conjures up some brilliant scenarios and characters.

What is so disarming about Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive is a scarce sense of appreciation - of the vampire couple for each other and the appreciation by both of them for what is great in the world.

After the initial disbelief that Jarmusch has written and directed a movie as simple and quiet as this, you settle into the rhythm of the piece and begin to appreciate the secret

Jarmusch's script shows a sophistication beyond the budding filmmaker's years.

A complex of narrative symmetry and existential ennui pointing to something far more resonant than the sum of its parts.