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By Nate Z (390) on 10 May 2014

In 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys went out late one night to ride their bikes. They were never seen alive again…

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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 Rico F (112) on 08 May 2014

Great movie. Having followed the case and read all the books and seen the documentarys. Excellent portrayals all around…

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By James H (4,675) on 08 May 2014

The reason critics don't like it is because they already know the story and wanted Egoyan to either give new information or pick a side and…

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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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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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