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Slow Burn

The truth is just a trick of light.

2005 · 1h 33m · R Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Wayne Beach

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Overview

A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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11%
Tomatometer
Rotten

Shelved for over a year, this incompetent mystery thriller stops periodically so some character or other can deliver an expository speech and pull the plot back on track, but by the end the story has turned into a hair ball.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten

A strange, sprained, but sprightly fusion of The Usual Suspects and the Tragic Mulatto, Slow Burn wants badly to turn its standard neo-noir into a nuanced racial chiaroscuro.

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten

If you have not figured out the identity of Luden by the finale, it will only be because you do not care.

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Rotten

The bigger problem is that for all the plot turns and reversals and flashes of action that Beach has structured into his film, there's an elusive extra something that's missing.

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten

John Grisham meets The Usual Suspects by way of late-night Cinemax in this derivative thriller.

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

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