It compares most unfavourably with the recent Prisoners, which told an entirely fictional story about missing children with far more intrigue, suspense and cinematic skill than Egoyan's muted effort.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2014

In literary adaptations such as Felicia's Journey and The Sweet Hereafter, Egoyan has shown that he can depict darkness and explore loss. But here, he feels mired in stereotypes, or dependent on images that documentaries have already created.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 23, 2014

Haunting artistry aside, it's hard to see what Egoyan brings to the table that hasn't already been covered in print (Mara Leveritt's book provides source material), on screen and elsewhere in the media.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2014

It is a strangely unsatisfactory affair that doesn't quite work either as a documentary-style reconstruction, a brooding thriller or a courtroom drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2014

Why has Egoyan made this unsatisfactory, ultimately dismaying film, when this awful story has been so thoroughly treated already elsewhere?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2014

...feels more like a stiff book report than a sobering account of an all-American tragedy.

| Jun 13, 2014

[Takes] the perfunctory shape of an afternoon 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2014

The whole thing is ill-scripted, ill-directed and, worst of all, superfluous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2014

It's absorbing, sometimes upsetting, but finally self-thwarting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 12, 2014

Takes a long time to tell us nothing we didn't know ... A missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 10, 2014

"Devil's Knot" screenwriters Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson, and the talented director Atom Egoyan, paint a picture of the principal figures in the case of the West Memphis Three and the community where the crimes took place.

| May 15, 2014

It's not a bad film, exactly, but it's a jumbled, uncertain one, and it never quite makes a compelling case for itself.

| May 9, 2014

There are too many major characters and too many points of emphasis. As elegantly directed as it sometimes is, it feels disjointed, scattered.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2014

An exhaustively researched - and, quite frankly, very exhausting - adaptation of journalist Mara Leveritt's book.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 9, 2014

The grief, the madness of the community, the plain stupidity of the cops, the mass protests that followed the convictions, the horrible power of it all - none of it comes across in this drab film.

| Original Score: D | May 9, 2014

The real-life characters, as shown in the documentaries, are far more colorful and quirky than they appear in these well-acted but comparatively safe performances.

| May 8, 2014

A nimble filmmaker, Egoyan wisely underplays the exploitative aspects of the story and never loses sight of the tragic deaths.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 8, 2014

It's as preachy as "The Crucible," with the score permanently set on "mournful."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 8, 2014

The movie doesn't grab you emotionally, but director Atom Egoyan (Exotica) teases apart the case's details with grim fascination.

| Original Score: B | May 8, 2014

The film's restraint verges on blankness; a mood of desolation builds in this story of the West Memphis Three, but not an involving drama.

| May 8, 2014