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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckRiver Runs Red is neither substantive nor thrilling enough to prove satisfying.
- 35Film Journal InternationalChris BarsantiFilm Journal InternationalChris BarsantiIt’s only when River Runs Red gets to about the hour mark that a story begins to cohere. Up until that point, it had taken the most perfunctory of stabs at being a ripped-from-the-headlines drama about police shootings.
- 30Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayRaising awareness of social injustice is a good goal, but not enough to hold an audience’s attention.
- 30L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlL.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlThe acting is stiff, the pacing sluggish, the framing uncertain, the music an intrusive mush and the scenario schematic. But it’s an interesting schematic, at least, complete with thoughtful/exhaustive discussion of the difference between justice, revenge and forgiveness.
- 25RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyOne of several reasons River Runs Red is such a resentment-generating movie is that it takes a vitally serious subject and makes such a relentlessly dumb hash of it.