There are no winners here, only losers.

| Original Score: F | Feb 20, 2019

I couldn't get any of what I just saw out of my head for hours after I had viewed it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 15, 2019

I like my sleaze 100% pure; this movie is covered in Sleaze-Whiz.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 15, 2019

Tim Sutton's artfully directed but self-important downer of a movie that's meant to be some sort of Grand Statement about life among dispossessed whites in rural, Midwestern America.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 15, 2019

Anchored by a quartet of fierce performances, "Donnybrook" is an intense, visceral tone poem, a rumination on money and drugs and bloodshed as a means of making ends meet in the heartland of modern America.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 15, 2019

"Donnybrook" is a movie about, among other things, bare-knuckle fighting, but it's the viewers who will feel beaten down.

| Feb 14, 2019

A pointless exercise in gratuitous violence that imagines itself deep because it's got an opera-heavy score.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 14, 2019

While the movie develops a gripping and purposeful arc as it builds to the final act confrontation, the humorless aura has a tendency to stifle its characters' humanity by drowning them in desperation.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2019

Has that morose aesthetic and grim determination, but the plot and pacing are too aimless to sustain much interest, even for these relatively brisk 101 minutes.

| Feb 13, 2019

Tim Sutton's screen adaptation frequently blunders over the line separating evocative exaggeration from noxious bullshit.

| Original Score: C | Feb 13, 2019

The film knots several strands of new-millennium despair into something that very nearly approximates greatness in its first half.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2019

A unique, twisted, and not altogether unwelcome thriller.

| Feb 8, 2019

The film exudes a grungy, B-movie ethos in keeping with its scrappy, resourceful characters.

| Feb 8, 2019

Sutton's skill is making you care for these characters and keeping you rooting for them to find some redemption. But then he punishes you for such hopes, all to get across a blunt and hollow message.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 11, 2018

The apocalyptic vision of the heartland created by Sutton and his cast (based on the novel by Frank Bill) is impressively convincing, even if the themes are often overstated and the film itself is very hard to watch.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2018

If Sutton's aim is to give these people a voice, he has not only failed, but he has gone further and reduced them to inchoate caricatures.

| Sep 10, 2018

It's a pulpy slab of exploitation masquerading as an important treatise on the struggles faced by the working class in rural America, thumping us in the face with its shallow viewpoint until we beg for mercy. Or at least the credits.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2018

A repellent mixture of Malick-like dreaminess, Scorsese-esque brutality and the lurid shock/schlock of William Faulkner in Sanctuary mode.

| Sep 8, 2018

Dark [and] bruise-inducingly poetic...

| Sep 8, 2018