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Burn Country
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After being exiled from Afghanistan, a former war journalist settles in a small town in Northern California. When he tries to rise above his menial job on a police blotter by covering a local crime, he's drawn into a world of violence.
Actors:
Dominic Rains, Melissa Leo, James Franco, Rachel Brosnahan, Thomas Jay Ryan, Tim Kniffin, James Oliver Wheatley, Jason Craig, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Christopher Kuckenbaker, John Craven, ...»
Director:
Ian Olds
Country:
United States
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June 13, 2016 Though [Rains is] strong in The Fixer, willing to push his character's initially endearing curiousity into aggressive and stubborn places and show real emotional confusion in a foreign land, the picture is otherwise a mixed bag.
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Paste Magazine
December 09, 2016 Nothing that follows Burn Country's jarring opening scene, which drops us without warning into an ongoing performance of an avant-garde play, quite lives up to its audacious intensity and strangeness.
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NOW Toronto
September 09, 2016 Sitaru effortlessly balances the demands of the thriller genre with careful characterizations and a sympathetic, never-judgmental look at poverty and crime.
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Los Angeles Times
December 08, 2016 There's plenty of intelligence and atmosphere in play here - Adam Newport-Berra's fluid, textured cinematography is a standout, and the performances, especially Rains' charismatic portrait of someone scarred yet innocent, are engaging.
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Hollywood Reporter
May 05, 2016 Rains... brings such a sense of purpose to the part that the movie never goes slack.
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Village Voice
December 06, 2016 The movie - at first scrappy and strange but an increasingly tough sit as it goes - never fixes its gaze on any singularly compelling idea.
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Common Sense Media
December 09, 2016 Drama about Afghani "fixer" in U.S. has mature content.
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Seattle Times
December 07, 2016 The performances are first rate, particularly Rains' work in the lead role.
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New York Times
December 08, 2016 Mr. Rains, Ms. Leo and Mr. Franco are all so interesting that you wish they had more to bite into. But the film has a transfixing quality nonetheless.
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AV Club
December 07, 2016 More of an interesting thesis than a compelling drama, but it's anchored by Rains' sturdy performance as a man whose open-minded curiosity about his new home disengages his natural wariness, for both better and worse.
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Slant Magazine
December 04, 2016 For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one.
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Cinemalogue.com
January 16, 2017 Despite some atmospheric touches, the film doesn't offer much meaningful insight into the struggle of a man trying desperately to assimilate into a new culture.
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