Bring Them Down

"It’s all forward momentum without much of a purpose or effective payoff."

"Two terrific actors, but a taxing sit."

"It’s grimly funny, and hilariously sad."

"What saves this uneven material is the actors’ committed, anguished turns."

"Andrews' traumatic debut is too in love with its own pain to offer anything new to the genre."

"Emotionally grueling and mud-flecked drama."

"As bleak and chilly as a winter’s night in the Irish hinterland, and every bit as bracing."

"Unnerving and tense."

"Abbott is truly chilling."

"Brutal and unforgiving and sometimes almost cruelly funny."

"Here’s a film where regret is stepped into every crevice."

"Meticulously crafted but intermittently punishing."

"There is something unsubtle, unconvincing and even absurd in where it’s all heading."

"For all its ferocious focus, this is a relatively quiet movie that embraces its smallness."

"It all descends into a Biblical bogland western."