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By David Sexton (322) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 12 Jun 2014

Why has Egoyan made this unsatisfactory, ultimately dismaying film, when this awful story has been so thoroughly treated already elsewhere…

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By William Goss (413) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 12 Jun 2014

feels more like a stiff book report than a sobering account of an all-American tragedy…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 11 Jun 2014

Maybe it needed a director like David Fincher to capture the deep, dark dread of what happened but in the hands of Atom Egoyan it barely scratches…

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By Mike Mccahill (552) for Guardian (4,584) on 11 Jun 2014

[Takes] the perfunctory shape of an afternoon TV movie…

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By Elliott Noble (448) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 11 Jun 2014

Where some directors might have let the religious overtones induce feverish lapses into Southern Gothic, Egoyan wisely plays it as a straight…

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By Nigel Andrews (1,359) for Financial Times (1,822) on 11 Jun 2014

The whole thing is ill-scripted, ill-directed and, worst of all, superfluous…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 11 Jun 2014

It's absorbing, sometimes upsetting, but finally self-thwarting…

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By Tom Huddleston (600) for Time Out (7,510) on 09 Jun 2014

There’s too much story to cram into one film, with the result that the three surly teenagers themselves – who would have made far more…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 07 Jun 2014

Egoyan fails to offer much fresh insight in this well-intentioned but oddly uninvolving film…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 05 Jun 2014

Lacks tension, focus and -- most damaging -- seems entirely unnecessary and redundant in the wake of the four documentary features that not…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 29 May 2014

Doesn't have enough of a unique take on the overly familiar material to elevate it from the documentaries that covered the story so much better…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 20 May 2014

A serviceable, straightforward work that embraces posed and expeditious dramatic signifiers rather than plunging more daringly into the mouth…

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By Glenn Lovell (434) for CinemaDope (253) on 17 May 2014

You'll have little patience with this fact-based indie, especially if you're a fan of HBO's 'True Detective' series, which also deals with…

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By Leonard Maltin (609) for leonardmaltin.com (584) on 14 May 2014

Devil's Knot screenwriters Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson, and the talented director Atom Egoyan, paint a picture of the principal…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 12 May 2014

Coming from such a talented filmmaker, the film is disappointingly prosaic, unable to shake a Lifetime movie-of-the-week quality…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 May 2014

The rest is pure director-for-hire bland, even if the material would seem to cry out for [Atom Egoyan's] signature brand…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for PopMatters (2,617) on 09 May 2014

There are four definitive movies about the West Memphis Three. The Devil's Knot is not one of them…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 08 May 2014

A feature film treatment at this point seems opportunistic at best…

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By Eric Eisenberg (199) for CinemaBlend (829) on 08 May 2014

Stale, flat, and completely underwhelming…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 08 May 2014

It’s not a bad film, exactly, but it’s a jumbled, uncertain one, and it never quite makes a compelling case for itself…

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