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Lawless

2012

John Hillcoat

Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain ...

6.2

8,563

Thriller. Drama LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic gangster tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant’s family in his novel "The Wettest County In The World", the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation’s most notorious crime wave.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Every festival has the right to its duds, but I was surprised when I suddenly realized that 'Lawless' isn't a bad Cannes film - it's a bad Sundance film"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Fueled by a brooding sense of dread, visceral bursts of violence, potent atmosphere and some juicy character portraits"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A smug, empty exercise in macho-sentimental violence (...) As with all movies 'based on a true story', you wonder what the true story actually is (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"With a dynamite cast, an iconic screenwriter in rocker Nick Cave and an Aussie director in John Hillcoat, you assume a new classic. What you get is an ambitious try (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"Hillcoat and Cave give us more than an action story. They create a world"	POS

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