The Parts You Lose captures the wintry isolation of North Dakota well, and the actors involved ensure that it’s never unwatchable. Yet this is the worst kind of bad movie: a film with absolutely nothing to say.
The Parts You Lose
Canada · 0
Director Christopher Cantwell
Starring Aaron Paul, Danny Murphy, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scoot McNairy
Genre Drama
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The film follows the unlikely friendship that unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The Parts You Lose somehow manages to be both unmoving and tension-free, wasting the talents of several notable actors in the process.
Aaron Paul brings his trademark street-corner angst to the party, and it plays just fine. As child actors go, Murphy is pretty good. McNairy and Winstead do a fine job of realizing that silent, domestic agony that neither party wants to bring out into the open, fearing it won’t go back in.
Los Angeles Times by Noel Murray
This story of a lonely kid in need of a father figure seems stubbornly small, given the creators involved. It’s a premise in search of a plot.
Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper
Paul and young Danny Murphy are terrific together, with Paul playing a wounded bear growling his lines and Murphy delivering a fully realized performance. And for such a bleak and harsh tale, The Parts You Lose finds some rays of light at the end of the night.
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