Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy have established that they're a directing team to watch out for.

| Original Score: B | Jul 17, 2024

A perfectly icy thriller.

| Feb 13, 2024

It’s an original story, which is rare, that is different, and you find an appreciation will build as the quarantined days melt together.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 28, 2022

It doesn’t all flesh out perfectly but the twists keep you guessing and the film really sticks its finish.

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

it’s impossible to shake the feeling that with more time to explore this place and these characters, this could have been something quite special. Instead, it’s merely well-done.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2022

Cole and Krudy make the best Coens riff I've seen in years.

| Mar 11, 2022

Blow the Man Down is not necessarily a life-altering story. Still, it is a pleasing, incredibly entertaining modern noir.

| Original Score: A | Feb 11, 2022

Aided by a great cast that includes Margot Martindale and June Squibb, and atmospheric sea shanties, co-writers/directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy spin a twisty, clever women-centric mystery thriller.

| Nov 30, 2021

Writer-directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy's debut film Blow the Man Down is a riveting, suspenseful, and beautifully acted women-centered drama.

| Nov 30, 2021

What a pleasure to see actors like June Squibb, Margo Martindale, and Annette O'Toole in roles that usually go to men, complex, wily, and tough.

| Nov 30, 2021

Their roughly 90-minute-film feels both personal - they say the characters 'were inspired by our moms, aunts, grandmothers and matriarchs' in their lives - and a bit unpolished.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 28, 2021

A tightening of the screws would have helped this thriller immensely. But Cole and Krudy are after something a little different here than just two sister and one downward spiral.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2021

It's normally not a great sign when the lead characters are less compelling than anything around them, but the Connollys' predicament opens up the weird bits of village mythology and feminine conspiracy that secretly drives the film forward.

| Feb 7, 2021

The performances are solid, the writing sublime, the cinematography rich - come for the murder, stay for the drah-ma.

| Feb 7, 2021

Blow the Man Down is a mystery-thriller with a quiet case of genre-confusion. It is a dark comedy at times, a family drama at others and a satirical mystery in its finest moments.

| Jan 28, 2021

[A] murder movie with momentum...

| Dec 30, 2020

The movie benefits greatly from its location shooting, the veteran cast that includes Margo Martindale, Annette O'Toole and June Squibb and tight construction.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Nov 27, 2020

It's a clever movie whose characterful and low-key suspense pleasures are like the screen equivalent of a new book by Kate Atkinson or Louise Penny.

| Oct 14, 2020

Blow the Man Down is swift but not choppy, with Martindale silencing people merely by appearing in doorways

| Sep 16, 2020

Blow the Man Down is a rather unique beast of a film.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Aug 30, 2020