Fresh
It's slight and casual to the point of laziness, but it's straight fun, done with knowledge and a laconic pleasure. You could do far worse.
David Thomson, The New Republic
Lawless
When the law became corrupt, outlaws became heroes.
2012 · 1h 55m · R
Crime, Drama, Western
Directed by
John Hillcoat
Overview
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business — bootlegging. Middle brother Forrest is the brain of the operation; older Howard is the brawn, and younger Jack, the lookout. Though the local police have taken bribes and left the brothers alone, a violent war erupts when a sadistic lawman from Chicago arrives and tries to shut down the Bondurants operation.
Director and cast
- John Hillcoat Director
- Shia LaBeouf as Jack Bondurant
- Tom Hardy as Forrest Bondurant
- Gary Oldman as Floyd Banner
- Guy Pearce as Charlie Rakes
- Jason Clarke as Howard Bondurant
- Jessica Chastain as Maggie Beauford
- Mia Wasikowska as Bertha Minnix
- Dane DeHaan as Cricket Pate
- Lew Temple as Deputy Henry Abshire
- Chris McGarry Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The center of narrative gravity is hard to locate; for whom are we rooting, and does anything really ripple outward from this nasty local fight?
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Fresh
Fans of The Proposition will have to settle for sublimely evil performances by Gary Oldman (as a murderous rival) and Guy Pearce (as a government agent) and a large quotient of gut-wrenching violence.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
With a dynamite cast, an iconic screenwriter in rocker Nick Cave and an Aussie director in John Hillcoat, you assume a new classic. What you get is an ambitious try.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
You can sense the filth, and smell the rust, and feel the ingrained poverty that might well convince a family of survivors (of World War I and the Spanish flu) to make their fortune selling moonshine to their neighbors.
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal
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