
A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better life.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better life.
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| Cinemalogue.comTodd Jorgenson... tries to make the material gritty and evocative within its impoverished setting, but the execution is woefully amateurish and heavy-handed. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerA scintillating lead performance, a good deal of heart and a fragrant sense of place just about compensate for some slack storytelling and a forcibly elegiac tone ... |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfA thick sheen of luscious lens flares and Terrence Malick–like poetic lulls feel like icing on an undercooked mud pie—Bedford’s script deserves a stronger engagement with its characters’ desperation. Instead they collide in a clichéd ending that feels padded. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinCompelling as Zylka and Keough may be — and we're definitely rooting for their well-etched characters — Bedford too often plies a kind of woeful wooziness here when a more propulsive approach is in order. |
| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezLow on ideas and high on atmosphere, Dixieland is a promising debut, but it likely won’t find you overwhelmingly writing back home about it. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThis is well-worn territory, and though the two leads are very good, the romance that is supposed to drive the story isn’t particularly well delineated. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...an often excessively familiar setup that's employ to progressively underwhelming effect... |
| indieWireEmily BuderAn archetypal story made compelling by honest performances but undone by its docu-fiction style.... Bedford shirked the responsibility of building out authenticity within the film's narrative world. |
| Village VoiceChris PackhamWriter-director Hank Bedford delivers some tactile, human details.... But the film is slow and often agonizingly predictable. |
| User ReviewKhaki FAMAZING!!!! Great performances by Faith, Riley and Brad Carter. Loved the dreamy quality of the film. |