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May 8, 2014 · “Devil’s Knot” is very good at local color embellished with subtle horror movie touches and a Southern Gothic ambience, as when a corpse slowly rises to the surface of muddy water during a ...
- 114 min
- Stephen Holden
The Devil's Knot. During the slavery period in Brazil, a sugar cane farm was the stage for the darkest kinds of horrors. Years later, the place's cruel past remains stained in its walls, until a ...
- Horror
Three young boys playing in the nearby woods never come home for dinner. In the rush to find and convict the killers, police focus on a trio of teenagers suspected of devil worship. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, Devil's Knot is based on the true story of the West Memphis 3.
About this movie. From Academy Award nominated director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), starring Academy Award winner Colin Firth (The King's Speech) and Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line), comes the feature film DEVIL'S KNOT, a haunting true mystery about who killed three children in a small town.
Comparing Devil's Knot to his somewhat similar The Sweet Hereafter, it's easy to see that, where that earlier film had grace, depth, and beauty, Devil's Knot seems all chilly surface, skimming over details and adding only cursory character elements, such as Hobbs' visit to her dead son's classroom. Lacking community or connection, it's a movie ...
Devil's Knot feels strangely clean. This, at least, meshes with the film's made-for-TV quality and style, although at this punishing duration, such tidiness hardly seems worth celebrating. Full ...
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