A mess.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 30, 2021

It reveals Shakman as someone with enough hand to deliver wholesome entertainment. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 18, 2020

While lacking the complexity of the greater works it clearly admires, Cut Bank is a serviceable adventure with some genuine surprises.

| Aug 23, 2018

Were Cut Bank not a movie but a pilot, with room and inclination to grow, maybe it could seem like more than just a hasty mash-up.

| Aug 24, 2017

Cut Bank is a pretty terrible film that I've developed a misplaced affection for anyway.

| Mar 30, 2017

Cut Bank is ersatz in almost every way, a parade of dumb people doing foolish things while other, dumber people plod along behind them slowly putting things together.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 18, 2015

This well-cast grabber holds few surprises, but plenty of dark humor that suggests vastly superior films like "Fargo" or "Blood Simple."

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 3, 2015

Once blood starts spurting and the old pros take control of the show, Patino's clever plotting wins viewers over.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2015

Admirers of small-town gamesmanship when it comes to murder will likely be the most entertained, but even the most patient with Matt Shakman's movie might find their attention wandering away while the film struggles to sustain suspense.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 10, 2015

Quite apart from the equally apparent lack of the Coens's extraordinary visual acuity, Cut Bank comes up short because it simply presumes that guilt and evil already live in town, just waiting for us to arrive and see the show.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2015

This is one script that no doubt read a lot better than it was ever going to look or sound.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 9, 2015

Deficient in charisma, Hemsworth lacks both the grit and grin that his complicated role demands.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 9, 2015

Like many of its brethren, the movie seems to love itself while hating its characters.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 9, 2015

Less 'Fargo Lite' than 'Fargo Flat'...a thoroughly pedestrian stroll through Coen brothers territory.

| Original Score: C | Apr 8, 2015

Works mainly as a throwback to those off-brand knock-offs that cluttered video store shelves in the mid-'90s. Good news, I guess, if you're nostalgic for Keys to Tulsa, Clay Pigeons or Feeling Minnesota.

| Apr 8, 2015

It could have been so much more, and maybe that's its greatest flaw.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 6, 2015

An entertaining but slow-paced thriller about fraud and murder in a small town.

| Apr 5, 2015

Just a generic exercise in pulp fiction.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 5, 2015

Cut Bank has a clever premise and a cast that works hard to make it worthwhile to stick with the film through the clunky parts.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2015

While there's some undeniably inherent joy in just seeing some of these great actors play off each other, the sum here is a shockingly dull affair, almost made more disappointing by the talent it wastes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 3, 2015