
SMALL CRIMES is a delightfully suspenseful, blackly comic tale that follows a disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, who returns home looking for redemption, but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.... (Full plot summary below)
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SMALL CRIMES is a delightfully suspenseful, blackly comic tale that follows a disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, who returns home looking for redemption, but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
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| The PlaylistKristy PuchkoEven though the plot loops in police corruption, murder, revenge, and blackmail, it’s pace never manages more than a sleepwalk shamble. |
| ScreenCrushBritt HayesDirector Evan Katz’s follow-up to 2013’s Cheap Thrills is a lean, mean neo-noir that addresses an age-old question: Do people ever really change? |
| Consequence of SoundMichael RoffmanUnlike similar thrillers cut from the same antihero cloth, Katz and Blair aren’t too concerned with frivolous and expected dalliances like redemption or honor. Instead, they run Coster-Waldau through the ringer, capitalizing on an unforgiving narrative that may be too bleak and uncompromising for some. |
| AV ClubMike D'AngeloSmall Crimes, as a film, ultimately errs on the side of being overly vague, perhaps because there simply isn’t any plausible way to get much of the history across via dialogue. |
| indieWireDavid EhrlichA pulpy slice of pie from deep in the heart of American nowhere, Evan Katz’s Small Crimes is far too convoluted for such an admittedly modest thriller, but the film ties together in such a perfect bow that it’s tempting to forgive all of the knots it took to get there. |
| The ARTerySean BurnsThe perfect movie to premiere on Netflix, not quite distinguished enough to warrant a trip to the multiplex but ideal couch company on a rainy afternoon. Such modest virtues should not be underestimated. |
| Film InquiryAlex ArabianThe Blair brothers fail miserably at trying to give a heartbeat to Small Crimes. However, Coster-Waldau and the rest of the cast do their best with the source material they're given. |
| Film School RejectsJacob OllerSmall Crimes is almost entirely hinged upon Coster-Waldau's beaten-dog performance of this down and out sadsack. |
| F This Movie!Patrick BromleyThe movie continues to make the case that Evan Katz is a huge talent, but it also fails to really excite me the way his last movie did. |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSmall Crimes is a dark Americana thriller filled with side-characters who are infinitely more interesting than the narcissistic lead. |