Blue Ruin
First screened in September 2013
Director: Jeremy Saulnier. Cast: Macon Blair, Amy Hargreaves, Devin Ratray, Kevin Kolack, David W. Thompson, Eve Plumb, Stacy Rock, Brent Werzner, Sidné Anderson, Bonnie Johnson. Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier. Twitter Capsule:
Muscular revenge thriller veined with black comedy. Fellow Virginians may detect NoVa/downstate tensions. Ace last shot.
VOR:③
Succeeds precisely as taut execution of broadly familiar recipe. Qualified points for originality, then, but it's got some sweet moves. Keeping an eye out for Saulnier & Co.
