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Shot Caller

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Original title: Shot Caller
Year: 2017
Running time: 121 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Screenwriter: Ric Roman Waugh
Music: Antonio Pinto
Cinematography: Dana Gonzales
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Donovan, Emory Cohen, Benjamin Bratt, Jessy Schram, Juan Pablo Raba, Omari Hardwick, Holt McCallany, Michael Landes, Evan Jones, Matt Gerald, Chris Browning, Keith Jardine, Sarah Minnich
Producer: Bold Films, Participant Media, Relativity Studios
Genre: Thriller. Drama | Crime. Prison Drama
Synopsis: A newly released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

Critics' reviews

"'Shot Caller' is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task. Harlon’s transition is a depressingly plausible one"

Peter Vonder Haar: Village Voice
"The prison scenes are extremely well done (...) [Waugh] knows how to stage and edit action scenes compellingly (...) 'Shot Caller' may cover little new ground but navigates familiar terrain with considerable skill."

Stephen Farber: The Hollywood Reporter
"Involving yet trivializing (...) 'Shot Caller' effectively conveys the vise grip of Jacob’s options, but that doesn’t make it less ludicrous from scene to scene."

Ben Kenigsberg: The New York Times
"It’s a genre movie, to be sure, but there’s an impressive sense of authenticity (...) 'Shot Caller' is all about potential energy, and that lends it an unexpected but welcome seriousness."

Peter Debruge: Variety
"A highly watchable study of an ordinary man (...) Coster-Waldau does a top-notch job (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Marc Savlov: Austin Chronicle
"Despite its unabashed fondness for clichés and tired tropes, 'Shot Caller' mostly succeeds in its aims because of Waugh’s sober, matter-of-fact approach to the material (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Vikram Murthi: rogerebert.com
"A film that never fails to involve the viewer in the choices Jacob makes (...) With an electrifying centerpiece performance by Coster-Waldau (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"

Rex Reed: The New York Observer

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