Cut Bank
A24 | Release Date: April 3, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniMar 31, 2015
Without his usual tics, Malkovich is a wonder, quietly transforming an unassuming town fixture into Cut Bank's conscience. But the revelatory performance is Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) as Derby Milton. Read full review
60
The DissolveCharles BramescoApr 1, 2015
This Bizarro-universe Coen brothers mash-up has the decency to be sporadically fun, even when it isn’t especially original or steady. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Geoff PevereApr 9, 2015
If you’ve already been to Fargo, or at least visited the place via movies or TV, you’ve got scant reason to go to Cut Bank. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenApr 2, 2015
If only anything felt at stake in this story's dark spiral. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenApr 2, 2015
It is up to its fine cast to build what little sense of mystery is conjured and to bring a sense of coherence to a narrative mishmash that is all smirking attitude with no subtext. Think of it as a goof. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 1, 2015
Shakman cast this well, so well he can afford to waste a good actor like Oliver Platt on a tiny role as a careless, Bluetooth-addicted Fed and Thornton on a couple of simple exposition scenes. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineCarson LundMar 30, 2015
If the film is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Matt Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip it of any sense of coherent vision. Read full review
50
VarietyGeoff BerkshireMar 30, 2015
Watching an estimable quintet of character actors do their thing is the chief pleasure of Cut Bank. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMar 30, 2015
Clever enough to provoke a few abrupt laughs along the way, this big screen debut for two television stalwarts, director Matt Shakman (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and writer Robert Patino (Sons of Anarchy, Prime Suspect), is sabotaged by some frightfully on-the-nose expository dialogue and an adamantly prosaic visual style. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 3, 2015
From the beginning, Cut Bank isn’t just tonally inconsistent, it doesn’t really have one. It’s flat. There’s no sense of rhythm, tension, or atmosphere. Read full review
33
The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinMar 30, 2015
It roars to a bitterly funny pitch every so often, but from the lack of life in the picture and such a stacked cast, you get the sense that the lunch breaks between filming resulted in more adventurous storytelling than the events that made it into the final cut. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 9, 2015
The plot’s outrageousness — which includes Michael Stuhlbarg as a Ted Kaczynski-esque town crazy — would go down better if there were a sympathetic character or two (or, absent that, some laughs), but no dice. Read full review
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