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By Kim Newman (791) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 26 Apr 2014

A lean, tough, thoughtful thriller with depth, Blue Ruin establishes Jeremy Saulnier as a promising indie auteur and Macon Blair as an unusual…

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By Rich Cline (3,056) for Contactmusic.com (927) on 26 Apr 2014

Dark and freaky, this brutal, low-key revenge thriller throws a bunch of relatively simple people into a moral quagmire, and drags us in as well…

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By David G (2,424) on 26 Apr 2014

I'd not heard or read about this film before I went to see it, but I was pleasantly surprised at how good it is…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 26 Apr 2014

It’s a brilliant, slow-burning American revenge thriller that hardly puts a foot wrong, a work of startling violence and profound conscience…

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By Lamontraymond (377) on 26 Apr 2014

A modern reinvention of the Hatfields and the McCoys - but with the unlikeliest of protagonists…

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By Emma Dibdin (195) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 25 Apr 2014

It's uneven and underdeveloped, but Blue Ruin succeeds as a lean and unflinchingly brutal take on a familiar genre…

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By Caesar M (234) on 25 Apr 2014

Spirit In the Woods was a film that was funded through Kickstarter that showcased yes people are willingly to pay for terrible, terrible found…

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By Kathy M (128) on 25 Apr 2014

Really enjoyed this indie film. Check it out…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Canada.com (402) on 24 Apr 2014

It's a dark trip that only grows darker with each stomach-turning twist, but Saulnier brings an elegant touch to the frame that makes the whole…

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By Stefan Pape (613) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 24 Apr 2014

Suspenseful and intense in parts, darkly comic in others, there's a brilliant tone to this memorable piece, as Saulnier manages to find the…

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By Adam Nayman (350) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 24 Apr 2014

Blair is excellent in the lead, but the filmmaking is the true star here…

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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 24 Apr 2014

Director Jeremy Saulnier has worked largely as a cinematographer, and Blue Ruin is marked by careful compositions and lighting…

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By Susan Wloszczyna (541) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 24 Apr 2014

The bloody fingerprints of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers — among other violence-prone auteurs — are smeared all over his tidy…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 23 Apr 2014

A lean, unsparing carousel of vigilante-style comeuppances, Blue Ruin brings newfound immediacy and quaking apprehension to a plot that, on…

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By Eric Eisenberg (199) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 23 Apr 2014

A movie made with terrific filmmaking and storytelling technique, [that] solidifies Jeremy Saulnier as a director to keep an eye on…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 23 Apr 2014

Blue Ruin is a Clint Eastwood vigilante fantasy with an anti-Clint at its center—small-statured, round-faced, nervous Dwight (Macon Blair),…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Apr 2014

Blue Ruin is the rare film that is nearly consistently tense, the suspense only temporarily subsiding about an hour into the story…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 23 Apr 2014

Blue Ruin succeeds on the strength of Saulnier's skill at slowly escalating the tension, even with a would-be action protagonist who is almost…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 23 Apr 2014

An effective regional crime drama in the key of Jeff Nichols, but lacking his emotional and thematic complexity…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 23 Apr 2014

Blue Ruin stands out because of the way it frames this revenge mission as a preordained conclusion, an unstoppable journey toward a brutal end…

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