{
  "id": 951580,
  "title": "‘Dead Souls’ Review: Alex Cox Betrays His Talent — Again — in His Latest Arid Didactic Western Doodle",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/dead-souls-review-alex-cox-betrays-his-talent-again-in-his-latest",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-15T03:54:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/dead-souls-review-alex-cox-1236834377/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The film starts as a mystery, but once that’s solved, the only real mystery is why Alex Cox tied his film career to a stone marked \"retro Marxist Western punk pretension\" and then threw that stone into the water and plunged down after it, sinking to the bottom.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}