Strange, I watched this movie last week and planned to write a review for it here soon!
This movie is great, it's music and cinematography work together perfectly along with the narration and acting. It is in fact shot by the same director of photography as The Village, Roger Deakins, and it carries a similar feel in its imagery at times. Rocking chairs, window reflections, and a deep feeling of autumn in the nature shots.
It's also a good picture of the human condition, showing everything from pride to shame and near insanity in its unscrupulous characters. It shows the inevitable despair that is a consequence of bad choices, made by some men that aren't entirely unlikable. Jesse James looks back on his life, knowing he's become something he didn't want to be, yet he's too lost in his sin to turn back from it, or to even care enough.
The one flaw this movie has is it's too long. Too stretched out, and the unremarkable moments contrast too much with the incredible ones, so it doesn't flow as well as it could have.