"Beautifully shot, this tense slow-burning thriller is a refreshing change of pace from your stand thriller affair. The story is built up achingly slow, perhaps to highlight the almost freezing of time the small town is facing in shock at the vicious triple homicide which opens the film.
Long, lingering shots give time for reflection as the films plays out, the dark brooding manner of night shots in diners and houses create an almost constant uncomfortable feeling as the mystery of where the plot is going slowly evolves.
Jon Berthnal and Christopher Abbott are both enthralling in their performances as our protagonist and antagonist respectively. Each feel like real people that, despite the film never really having any traditional exposition, manage to ooze personality and validity through every piece of dialogue or action taken.
The cinematography and directing have a supreme confidence behind them that leave you captivated in the screen, every shot is carefully calculated and highlights an emotion or theme - unorthodox but most definitely gripping"
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