Excellent retelling of Night Of The Hunter.

If this were David Gordon Green's only film, I'd be finding ways to praise it, because it shows alot of potential. Green finds unusual locations that you don't see in movies. There's never a dull shot & I'll give him this much: He's trying. But it's his 3rd film. The improvisations are sounding less fresh & more forced. Some of the stylistic tics, like the freeze-frame, just don't work. I left thinking Green needs to adapt a literary work, just so he can be tethered to something less effluvial.

With flashes of poetry, but somewhat uneven.

uneven but a worthwhile watch

The first half of the movie is excellent, but once the shock comes, it seems to unravel a bit. I didn't take issue with any of the performances or the way it was shot (that was all excellent), but the way the screenplay was written really wasn't even at all. While I enjoyed the ending and felt it put a nice cap on everything, the movie really could've been more. Being a Gordon Green fan, that's disappointing.

The first half of the film was interesting and engaging.The second half was cliched and dragged on a little to long.

Pretty dope movie but the ending doesn't really explain what happened...not that it's an "open" ending for interpretation...it is definitely resolved but it just doesn't really show how stuff went down.

"The rich soundscape of natural noises creates a palpable sense of enveloping environment." - Nick Schager

Somewhere towards the end of the movie, something goes wrong with the pacing, the acting, the directing, the everything. David Gordon Green is a genius in the making, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. The first 75% is great anyway.

Jamie Bell is phenomenal (he's rather adept at playing abused young boys by this point), and Gordon Green achieves some fantastic stand-alone moments, but the screenplay is half-baked, and as a result, only 50% of it takes off. Any other scene involving Josh Lucas is painful to watch.

not all that compelling