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Mar 20, 2019 · Which is to say that this apolitical texture is actually reactionary, suggesting, via omission, the essential futility of liberal humanist ideals. Dragged Across Concrete renders this idea much more explicit. The film’s theme is articulated when the poor and multiple sclerosis-plagued Melanie Ridgeman (Laurie Holden) says that she’s as ...
Mar 22, 2019 · The vicious Dragged Across Concrete can’t be apolitical when it stars Mel Gibson. Director S. Craig Zahler says his films focus on character over message, but it’s a hard line to walk. By ...
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Dragged Across Concrete. Dragged Across Concrete is a 2018 American neo-noir [2] crime thriller film written and directed by S. Craig Zahler. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Fred Melamed, Udo Kier, Thomas Kretschmann, and Don Johnson. The story ...
- $660,132
- Jeff Herriott, S. Craig Zahler
- $15 million
- S. Craig Zahler
Mar 22, 2019 · Most of “Dragged” is shot in low light, especially the final hour, but Zahler has a great sense of space and blocking, which helps keeps the film engrossing. And he draws a fascinating, world-weary performance from Gibson, who reminds one how good he can be with the right material.
Mar 20, 2019 · The writer-director S. Craig Zahler has embellished “Dragged Across Concrete” — a neo-exploitation potboiler about brutal men on both sides of the law — in both modest and grandiose ways ...
- S. Craig Zahler
Sep 3, 2018 · Film Review: Mel Gibson in ‘Dragged Across Concrete’. S. Craig Zahler continues to test the limits of B-movie form in this outsize bad-cop drama, to alternately exhilarating and unpleasant ...
Mar 19, 2019 · The tone of “Dragged Across Concrete” suggests a faux-Hemingwayesque minimalism without Hemingway’s dandyishness, ambiguity, irony, or sense of vast implication; his movie is all tip and no ...
