5.0
out of 100
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Mesmerizing.
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A superb crime melodrama.
This is no nostalgia trip taken by an 83-year-old director. It's a fierce, hot slap of a movie, a shameless melodrama with bite.
The wrenching tale has something for anyone who likes their melodrama spiked with palpable tension and genuine suspense.
Pungently atmospheric, brilliantly textured and featuring superb performances from every performer in parts big and small.
One bad idea can unravel and ruin lives in unimaginably horrific ways.That's the concept underlying the riveting Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a sharply acted and highly entertaining morality play.
Curiously exhilarating. Some of this comes from the simple thrill of witnessing something, or rather everything, done well.
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