Mystery Train

Mystery Train, evocatively photographed by the clear-eyed outsider Robby Muller, is occasionally touched with comic inspiration.

The three-part structure of Mystery Train is still a bit shambling and slight, but there's an undeniable air of deadpan cool that permeates the film and gives it a haunting sense of place.

Happily, Jarmusch's formal inventiveness is framed by a rare flair for zany entertainment ...

It's the best thing Mr. Jarmusch has done to date.

Great casting and occasional moments of grace.

If there is a rationale for what takes place on-screen, it's not evident. Things happen, and nothing means anything.

The grand pleasure of Mystery Train is seeing how a film with all the possibilities of being boring and soporific has a special dose of adrenaline within every demented sequence. [Full review in Spanish]

Jarmusch says, 'Sometimes two people going to have an ice cream cone can be much more dramatic or insightful than two people shooting at each other.' What makes Mystery Train different is that he gives us both.

It's a film about atmosphere and about feeling more than anything else, and in its own fashion succeeds remarkably.

...has the same weird beauty as a Van Morrison vocal, a mannered eccentricity that somehow cracks open and lays bear the stuttering, fervid heart of what could have been banal material.