
After a heist of a casino, the criminal Addison and his sister Liza are on the run to Canada. Addison tells his sister to get a ride to the border while he will cross the woods. Meanwhile, the former boxer Jay, released from prison on probation, calls his mother June who invites her son for Thanksgiving dinner. While driving on the road, he sees Liza and gives her a ride. But Sheriff Marshall T. Becker is hunting Addison with his men but excludes his daughter, Deputy Hanna, f... (Full plot summary below)
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After a heist of a casino, the criminal Addison and his sister Liza are on the run to Canada. Addison tells his sister to get a ride to the border while he will cross the woods. Meanwhile, the former boxer Jay, released from prison on probation, calls his mother June who invites her son for Thanksgiving dinner. While driving on the road, he sees Liza and gives her a ride. But Sheriff Marshall T. Becker is hunting Addison with his men but excludes his daughter, Deputy Hanna, from the hunting party. An unlikely gathering of characters for a Thanksgiving celebration.
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| AV ClubNoel MurrayThe best parts of Deadfall are absorbed into a scenario that frequently ditches the cat-and-mouse routine and tries instead to be about three dysfunctional families working toward reconciliation. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThe film's plot is not all that complex. What makes it work are the interesting characters and the way they play off each other, creating complex emotional patterns. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonBana ("Munich") makes an effective bad guy. Hunnam portrays Jay as a hero worth rooting for. And Wilde turns in a nuanced performance as a woman in conflict with herself. |
| VarietyRob NelsonA highly satisfying Western-cum-noir in the old tradition, Deadfall is alive in ways that are all too rare among American movies. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinAn excellent cast and an admirable refusal to give in to its audience's pleas for relief from its blue-gray bleakness aren't enough to raise Stefan Ruzowitsky's Deadfall above your run-of-the-mill snowbelt-set nihilistic noir. |
| amNewYorkRobert LevinA rare modern genre piece that doesn't shy away from being impossibly bleak and downbeat. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanThere's a powerfully creepy sensibility to Deadfall. But the way it handles the messiness of families -- a universal message given vivid metaphorical life in the blood and guts it leaves in its path -- is finally rewarding. |
| Film School RejectsJack GirouxIf you want a chilly, suspenseful thriller, watch Transsiberian, which co-stars the completely-wasted-here Kata Mara. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThere isn't much to the characters in this morose thriller. |
| AALBC.comKam WilliamsAn intriguing cat-and-mouse caper featuring both bullets and brains. The question is how long can they keep up the 'good perp, bad perp' charade before their luck finally runs out? |