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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Village VoiceSerena DonadoniVillage VoiceSerena DonadoniWithout his usual tics, Malkovich is a wonder, quietly transforming an unassuming town fixture into Cut Bank's conscience. But the revelatory performance is Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man) as Derby Milton.
- 60The DissolveCharles BramescoThe DissolveCharles BramescoThis Bizarro-universe Coen brothers mash-up has the decency to be sporadically fun, even when it isn’t especially original or steady.
- 50VarietyGeoff BerkshireVarietyGeoff BerkshireWatching an estimable quintet of character actors do their thing is the chief pleasure of Cut Bank.
- 50Slant MagazineCarson LundSlant MagazineCarson LundIf the film is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Matt Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip it of any sense of coherent vision.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreShakman cast this well, so well he can afford to waste a good actor like Oliver Platt on a tiny role as a careless, Bluetooth-addicted Fed and Thornton on a couple of simple exposition scenes.
- 50Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenIf only anything felt at stake in this story's dark spiral.
- 50The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenIt is up to its fine cast to build what little sense of mystery is conjured and to bring a sense of coherence to a narrative mishmash that is all smirking attitude with no subtext. Think of it as a goof.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyClever enough to provoke a few abrupt laughs along the way, this big screen debut for two television stalwarts, director Matt Shakman (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and writer Robert Patino (Sons of Anarchy, Prime Suspect), is sabotaged by some frightfully on-the-nose expository dialogue and an adamantly prosaic visual style.
- 38RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFrom the beginning, Cut Bank isn’t just tonally inconsistent, it doesn’t really have one. It’s flat. There’s no sense of rhythm, tension, or atmosphere.
- 33The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinThe PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinIt roars to a bitterly funny pitch every so often, but from the lack of life in the picture and such a stacked cast, you get the sense that the lunch breaks between filming resulted in more adventurous storytelling than the events that made it into the final cut.