Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) ***1/2

Upon a rewatch, my appreciation for Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) has grown but not quite enough to change my star rating. Like most of his films, there are many great moments in OLLA. Something about the whole doesn't quite gel as well as some of his other work for me though. It could be that the film draws a bit too much attention to its hipster tendencies. It could be the feeling that the film is trying too hard to subvert expectations of a genre.

But there are a lot of things that I like about OLLA—all four leads are perfectly cast, the droning score and soundtrack songs are both excellent, the melancholy mood is mostly just right, the languid pace works, and the costumes and production design are cool.

You can find my Jim Jarmusch Feature Films Ranked list here.