Clarke Duke’s directorial debut is a southern crime saga that practically drips with a style all its own.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2022

The dialogue is hard-boiled and the cast includes reliable tough talkers: John Malkovich, Vince Vaughn and Michael K Williams.

| Aug 22, 2022

That balance between a Southern black comedy and a gritty crime thriller is one of the most impressive things about Clark Duke’s entertaining debut.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Arkansas is a blend of affectionate, easy going and satisfying - not something I expected to write regarding a film focusing on American drug-runners.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 9, 2021

Think of it as a Southern-fried drug running, violent yet funny stepbrother of a Cohen Brothers movie. The performances are solid but the movie itself isn't award-winning.

| Original Score: 5.0 | Nov 25, 2020

Like most dark comedies in the same vein as Fargo, trouble in 'Arkansas' starts with one body and goes downhill until Frog himself has to step in to deal with things. And, no one wants that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 16, 2020

Arkansas is a try-hard exercise in overly self-aware cleverness.

| Aug 6, 2020

Despite the strong cast, Arkansas is mostly just recycled scenarios from better movies that fail to create much of an original impact when strung together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2020

Sure enough, Arkansas' depiction of the desperate hours and people keeps the interest, even as the shortcomings reveal themselves.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 21, 2020

A real disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2020

Feeling like a relic from the wave of '90s crime ensembles that followed in Tarantino's wake, Arkansas not only squanders some good talent, it's a tragic waste of a fine book.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2020

As a collection of smart-mouthed southern ne'er-do-wells, Arkansas amuses, but as a showcase for colourful 70s menswear, it excels.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 10, 2020

Finds its stride in its offbeat quirkiness featuring a five-act structure that juggles its goofy characters and mixes up criss-crossing timelines in a meandering road trip soup right out of the Joel and Ethan Coen playbook.

| Original Score: 3.5 | Jun 26, 2020

Arkansas in many ways feels more like a play or a talk show than a movie, and... it can be very funny when there doesn't seem much to laugh at.

| Jun 12, 2020

'Arkansas' is obnoxious, faux-quirky, and too clever by half. It feels like it was lifted directly from the wave of post-'Pulp Fiction' scuzz movies that arose in the late 1990s, but without the wit.

| May 27, 2020

The best way I can describe this film is it's a Southern-fried thriller by way of Fargo.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2020

An atmospheric and at times darkly hilarious Southern crime picture, and one of the better films to arrive in the quarantine era.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 15, 2020

What could have been a menacing mystery ends up being little better than a quirky pickle or two.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2020

While Arkansas may have aspired to have some Coen Brothers or Quentin Tarantino-esque flavor, Clark Duke's first outing is an uneven, at times entertaining, and often exasperating, corn-pone crime-drama.

| May 12, 2020

With its brooding tone of tired inevitability, his Arkansas knows exactly how to find drama and sentiment in what could otherwise just be a dour path to the inevitable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 12, 2020