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A Single Shot

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United Kingdom, United States, Canada · 2013
Rated R · 1h 56m
Director David M. Rosenthal
Starring Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Jeffrey Wright, Kelly Reilly
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

Left by his wife and young son, hunter John Moon makes a tragic mistake that begins to haunt him. This mistake winds up causing the hunter to become involved in a game of cat and mouse with hardened backwater criminals who are out for his blood.

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The A.V. Club by

It’s largely just an opportunity for the actors to try on Ozark-y mannerisms, swig moonshine, and hock loogies. And like most exercises in authenticity, it couldn’t be more inauthentic if it tried.

80

Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

David M. Rosenthal's sturdy, nasty rural noir, based on Matthew F. Jones's novel, is so sharp and rusted through that, after taking it in, you'll likely need a tetanus shot.

70

Arizona Republic by Bill Goodykoontz

A Single Shot never rises to the level of a great film like “Winter’s Bone,” which digs much deeper in its depiction of life in the hills among the desperate poor. But thanks largely to Rockwell, it’s not bad, either.

83

IndieWire by Eric Kohn

The suspense comes and goes, but A Single Shot always maintains a firm grip on its sad, deteriorating environment.

70

The Dissolve by Jen Chaney

Its ongoing reveal of interconnected, rough-edged characters, as well as a tone that’s a twangy, noirish brew of the Coen brothers, Alfred Hitchcock, and Winter’s Bone, are ultimately what make the movie unsettling and absorbing.

75

Slant Magazine by Nick Schager

Content to faithfully hew to convention, A Single Shot rarely surprises, but its portrait of foolishness and fallibility, and its atmosphere of inevitable doom, remain sturdy and captivating.

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Observer by Rex Reed

What passes for a plot has been done a thousand times before — in much better films than A Single Shot.

60

Time Out by Stephen Garrett

Rockwell’s performance is impressively flinty, as is the rest of the cast (including William H. Macy delivering some twitchy character work), and the dialogue sparkles with brilliantly colorful mountain-man slang. Despite its byzantine narrative, the film remains never less than absorbing, as the walls slowly close in on this good-hearted but ultimately flawed protagonist.

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