Hedlund providing his most nuanced, lived-in performance yet; a wrenching and real story that's both universal and eerily timely; delivers a necessary message without shirking from the realities of breaking free from a lifetime of evil indoctrination
Garrett Hedlund's humble performance grounds this empathetic drama; Hedlund's humble, hard-to-love performance makes the aptly named "Burden" work as both a portrait of one weak-minded man, and as a study of the ideas people carry without questioning why