Film critic Emanuel Levy gave the film an "A" and wrote, "Alongside Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, which is a Western in disguise, or rather a modern Western, Assassination of Jesse James is the second masterpiece of the season."
Filmski kritičar Emanuel Levy dao je filmu ocjenu "A" te napisao, "Zajedno s Nema zemlje za starce Joela i Ethana Coena, koji je zamaskirani vestern, ili čak moderni vestern, Ubojstvo Jesseja Jamesa je drugo remek-djelo sezone."