
Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three "devil-worshipping" teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town's need for justice and the guilt of the accused.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three "devil-worshipping" teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town's need for justice and the guilt of the accused.
Leave your thoughts about Devil's Knot.
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekComing from such a talented filmmaker, the film is disappointingly prosaic, unable to shake a Lifetime movie-of-the-week quality. |
| Assignment XAbbie BernsteinThe courtroom drama is powerful enough to make us wish that they'd given less time to Ms. Hobbs and more time to showing us the rest of what's known to have occurred. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...a good performance from Reese Witherspoon but little else (unless reality show level reenactments are your bag) |
| New York ObserverRex ReedThe case is revisited with painstaking detail, and a riveting picture emerges once again about misunderstood outsiders. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThe 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 film. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineBased on the events documented in West of Memphis and the Paradise Lost trilogy, this drama takes an almost clinical approach to the story. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanThis stilted crime drama from Atom Egoyan feels misguided from the start. He’s attempting to fictionalize a true story that has already been told better, several times over. |
| Maven's NestNora Lee MandelSound and look are key to atmosphere of ominous inevitability of conviction. . .Admirable for using only local points-of-view. ..Worth seeking out for thoughtful perspective. |
| sbs.com.auPeter GalvinIn its way, this is the most terrifying horror movie I've seen in a long time; the woods where the kids die are like something out of Evil Dead. I was left angry and wrung out. |
| AV ClubBen KenigsbergDevil’s Knot is an inert exercise, visually and dramatically on par with "Drew Peterson: Untouchable." |