Synopsis
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...
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Cast
- Liam HemsworthDwayne McLaren
- Teresa PalmerCassandra Steeley
- John MalkovichSheriff Vogel
- Bruce DernGeorgie Wits
- Billy Bob ThorntonStan Steeley
- Michael StuhlbargDerby Milton
- Oliver PlattJoe Barrett
- Ty OlssonHarvey
- Peyton KennedyRosie
- Marie ZydekNurse (uncredited)
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
Without his usual tics, Malkovich is a wonder, quietly transforming an unassuming town fixture into Cut Bank's conscience. But the revelatory performance is Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) as Derby Milton. - 60
The Dissolve
This Bizarro-universe Coen brothers mash-up has the decency to be sporadically fun, even when it isn’t especially original or steady. - 50
Variety
Watching an estimable quintet of character actors do their thing is the chief pleasure of Cut Bank. - 50
Slant Magazine
If the film is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Matt Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip it of any sense of coherent vision. - 50
Movie Nation
Shakman cast this well, so well he can afford to waste a good actor like Oliver Platt on a tiny role as a careless, Bluetooth-addicted Fed and Thornton on a couple of simple exposition scenes. - 50
Los Angeles Times
If only anything felt at stake in this story's dark spiral. - 50
The New York Times
It is up to its fine cast to build what little sense of mystery is conjured and to bring a sense of coherence to a narrative mishmash that is all smirking attitude with no subtext. Think of it as a goof. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Clever enough to provoke a few abrupt laughs along the way, this big screen debut for two television stalwarts, director Matt Shakman (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and writer Robert Patino (Sons of Anarchy, Prime Suspect), is sabotaged by some frightfully on-the-nose expository dialogue and an adamantly prosaic visual style.
