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Two men prepare to compete in a legendary bare-knuckle fight where the winner gets a $100,000 prize.
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| The PlaylistRodrigo PerezA stunning, often flooring masterwork about desperation, writer/director Tim Sutton’s, “Donnybrook” is a brutal elegy for those living on the forgotten fringes of America. |
| Screen InternationalTim GriersonFilmmaker Tim Sutton elicits pitiless performances from Frank Grillo and Jamie Bell playing two very different criminals on a collision course, and the film exudes a grungy, B-movie ethos in keeping with its scrappy, resourceful characters. |
| IndieWireEric KohnSutton’s tricky balance of B-movie caricatures and gloomy expressionism doesn’t always match up, but that very discordance speaks to the potency of its themes. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Kate TaylorThe apocalyptic vision of the heartland created by Sutton and his cast (based on the novel by Frank Bill) is impressively convincing, even if the themes are often overstated and the film itself is very hard to watch. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAs a depiction of the lowest ebbs of what is written off as flyover country, Donnybrook doesn't lack for empathy for the truly unsympathetic. What is in short supply is any sense of direction. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAnchored by a quartet of fierce performances, “Donnybrook” is an intense, visceral tone poem, a rumination on money and drugs and bloodshed as a means of making ends meet in the heartland of modern America. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeFor Sutton — whose previous film, “Dark Night,” inspired by 2012’s Aurora megaplex shooting, made an austere statement about gun violence — Donnybrook marks a major step forward in both ambition and style. |
| Slant MagazineChris BarsantiThe film knots several strands of new-millennium despair into something that very nearly approximates greatness in its first half. |
| TheWrapWilliam BibbianiThe cynicism of Donnybrook is overpowering, but unfocused. It’s easy to see why some people would react strongly to its ugly tale of misery and violence, and yet without context and contrast, without making statements beyond “the world sure does suck,” Sutton’s film feels frustratingly hollow. It makes an impact but leaves no impression. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloHere, Sutton is working with actual characters, played by professional actors, and his instinct is to flatten them as much as possible. |