Mixing Ken Loach-style social realism with Mike Hodge’s grasp of stylish murder, much in the vein of 2012’s equally razor-balanced sniper shocker Tower Block, you’ll be cheering for this good woman when she faces the inevitable showdown.
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find
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United Kingdom, Belgium · 2019
1h 37m
Director Abner Pastoll
Starring Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan
Genre Crime, Thriller
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In this gritty revenge thriller, Sarah is a recently widowed young mother desperate to know the truth behind her husband’s murder, which the police have ruled a robbery-related spat. She may be grieving, but she’s anything but helpless — as the local gangsters will soon find out…
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The film’s early scenes turn the stuff of paying bills and managing kids into manna for an unsettlingly intimate domestic thriller.
I cannot lie, though. As cranky as much of the movie made me, Pastoll, Blaney, and especially Bolger all contrive to deliver as satisfying a climax and dénouement to this saga as one could hope for. So there is that.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
While the movie barrels toward a final act that’s more feminist fantasy than credible conclusion, Bolger’s phenomenal performance locks us tightly on Sarah’s side.
A Good Woman Is Hard To Find is an extremely harrowing, tense movie that has such an unbelievably satisfying payoff.
The opportunistic genre-welding holds together thanks to vivid performances. Bolger makes a slightly implausible character arc completely convincing, graduating from panicky improvisation to grim determination.
A kitchen sink drama, a pulpy crime movie, and a bloody revenge tale all held together by one hell of a performance.
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