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Burn Country
After being exiled from Afghanistan, a former war journalist settles in a small town in Northern California. When he tries to rise above his menial job on a police blotter by covering a local crime, he's drawn into a world of violence.
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
1 August 1962, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
14 September 1960, New York City, New York, USA
January 16, 2017
Despite some atmospheric touches, the film doesn't offer much meaningful insight into the struggle of a man trying desperately to assimilate into a new culture.
December 09, 2016
Drama about Afghani "fixer" in U.S. has mature content.
December 07, 2016
The performances are first rate, particularly Rains' work in the lead role.
September 09, 2016
Sitaru effortlessly balances the demands of the thriller genre with careful characterizations and a sympathetic, never-judgmental look at poverty and crime.
December 06, 2016
The movie - at first scrappy and strange but an increasingly tough sit as it goes - never fixes its gaze on any singularly compelling idea.
December 08, 2016
There's plenty of intelligence and atmosphere in play here - Adam Newport-Berra's fluid, textured cinematography is a standout, and the performances, especially Rains' charismatic portrait of someone scarred yet innocent, are engaging.
May 05, 2016
Rains... brings such a sense of purpose to the part that the movie never goes slack.
December 07, 2016
More of an interesting thesis than a compelling drama, but it's anchored by Rains' sturdy performance as a man whose open-minded curiosity about his new home disengages his natural wariness, for both better and worse.
December 09, 2016
Nothing that follows Burn Country's jarring opening scene, which drops us without warning into an ongoing performance of an avant-garde play, quite lives up to its audacious intensity and strangeness.
June 13, 2016
Though [Rains is] strong in The Fixer, willing to push his character's initially endearing curiousity into aggressive and stubborn places and show real emotional confusion in a foreign land, the picture is otherwise a mixed bag.
December 08, 2016
Mr. Rains, Ms. Leo and Mr. Franco are all so interesting that you wish they had more to bite into. But the film has a transfixing quality nonetheless.
December 04, 2016
For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one.
