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Small Crimes

2017

E.L. Katz

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Molly Parker, Gary Cole, Robert Forster ...

4.8

727

Thriller After serving time for the attempted murder of a District Attorney, disgraced former cop Joe Denton returns home looking for redemption. An embarrassment to his parents and abandoned by his ex-wife, it seems as if things can’t get much worse. But then Joe finds himself trapped in the mess he left behind—in the cross fire between a crooked sheriff, the vengeful DA, and a mafia kingpin who knows too much.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A modestly satisfying dose of pulp fiction (...) Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the perfect hangdog hero in this convoluted story of crooked cops and second chances"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'Small Crimes' feels slight at times, but it’s certainly entertaining (...) I wished that the protagonist was a bit more interesting (...) but this thing wraps up in a surprisingly neat bow."	NEU
United States	Kristy Puchko The Playlist	"Drained of humor — dark or otherwise — this crime thriller becomes one note, and that note is bleak."	NEG
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"While the decision not to just vomit up backstory is admirable (...) [it] 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."	NEU

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