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they're not enough to make The Devil's Knot anything more than a wan gloss on a horrific nightmareby Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald ]
the grief, the madness of the community, the plain stupidity of the cops, the mass protests that followed the convictions, the horrible power of it all - none of it comes across in this drab filmReview rate : D by Tom Long [Detroit News ]
the film is not nearly as evocative as Egoyan's 1997 masterpiece The Sweet Hereafter (also about children who died tragically), it is still an intrinsically fascinating storyby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
The Devil's Knot isn't a bad film. It's just not a very good one. It's certainly not a film one would expect from Egoyanby Tirdad Derakhshani [Philadelphia Inquirer ]
it's a very standard retellingby Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
Egoyan's cool gaze fails to fully serve the boiling narrative of Devil's Knot, a story that seems destined to forever elude a satisfactory resolutionby Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
Egoyan has rounded up an impressive supporting cast, including Amy Ryan, Mireille Enos and Alessandro Nivola. But no one is given the chance to make a memorable impactby Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News ]
"Devil's Knot" ends after the trial, so this movie is the tale of a Salem-style lynch mob. It's as preachy as "The Crucible," with the score permanently set on "mournful"by Farran Smith Nehme [New York Post ]