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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 08 May 2014

Atom Egoyan is all over the real-life case of American injustice surrounding the West Memphis Three. But sadly, I'm not sure why…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 08 May 2014

You would think that the horrific case of the West Memphis Three would not need further retelling. This film has little to add to the conversation…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 08 May 2014

The writer-director has the talent to dig deep and lay bare the assumptions behind our idea of justice and our notions of right and wrong…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 08 May 2014

The grief, the madness of the community, the plain stupidity of the cops, the mass protests that followed the convictions, the horrible power…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 07 May 2014

The finished product plays as if it was thrown together by people whose research consisted of skimming over the West Memphis Three's Wikipedia entry…

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By Stephen Holden (1,707) for New York Times (5,786) on 07 May 2014

In the opening images of Devil’s Knot, the camera sets a menacing, Hitchcockian mood by stealthily creeping into the woods where the murders…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 07 May 2014

While the film is not nearly as evocative as Egoyan's 1997 masterpiece The Sweet Hereafter (also about children who died tragically), it is…

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By Farran Smith Nehme (295) for New York Post (6,650) on 07 May 2014

Colin Firth plays a real-life investigator whom the script renders as noble as Atticus Finch…

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By Adam Markovitz (84) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 May 2014

The movie doesn’t grab you emotionally, but director Atom Egoyan (Exotica) teases apart the case’s details with grim fascination…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 May 2014

Egoyan, who has never shied away from the lurid aspects of lost innocence, takes a measured approach that successfully avoids sensationalism…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 May 2014

A dull retelling of the original 1994 West Memphis Three trial that brings nothing new to the table but underwhelming performances and a wishy-washy…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 May 2014

Devil’s Knot is an inert exercise, visually and dramatically on par with Drew Peterson: Untouchable…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 07 May 2014

This stilted crime drama from Atom Egoyan feels misguided from the start…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 06 May 2014

The case is revisited with painstaking detail, and a riveting picture emerges once again about misunderstood outsiders…

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By Rob Boylan (29) for Orlando Weekly (1,048) on 05 May 2014

It's unclear what the director, Atom Egoyan, intended to do here. The film has no personality or authorship…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 05 May 2014

Egoyan musters some of the power he brought to The Sweet Hereafter, another lost-children tale, but little of the lyric beauty or sense of…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 05 May 2014

Atom Egoyan is a much better director when he drops the art-film fanciness and wrestles directly with his inner voyeuristic weirdo…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 03 May 2014

a good performance from Reese Witherspoon but little else (unless reality show level reenactments are your bag)…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 27 Apr 2014

Devil's Knot or Devils Not? Egoyan deciphers difference intolerance…

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By David Berry (137) for National Post (1,405) on 23 Jan 2014

If you don't know anything about the case, Devil's Knot is too shallow to do it much justice; if you do know about the case, Devil's Knot is…

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