Sweet Virginia
A former rodeo champ befriends a young man with a propensity for violence.
1954, Canada
20 September 1964, Vidor, Texas, USA
10 June 1968, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3 June 1989, London, England, UK
28 March 1966, Montréal, Québec, Canada
13 December 1970, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
November 16, 2017
The connections ... feel a bit too circumstantial.
November 15, 2017
There is a deep sense of menacing anxiety that pervades this city-cat-vs.-town-mouse tale.
November 16, 2017
What sets Sweet Virginia above the pack is a leisurely inquiry into the moral rot that seeps into the very bones of lives bent out of shape by disappointment, frustration, loneliness or the absence of love.
November 15, 2017
Threatening and deeply felt, keeping the viewing experience surprising even while the story deals with familiar elements of intimidation and distress.
November 15, 2017
... the understated, intense performances of [director Jamie] Dagg's cast make this slow burner a standout.
November 16, 2017
It starts with a bang, ends with a bang, and those scenes bookend some solid character moments and tense, atmospheric filmmaking. This small gem is worth seeking out.
October 27, 2017
This taut drama exists in a timeless noir territory, a world of free-floating dread and dashed hopes where mood supersedes specifics of time and place.
November 16, 2017
A twisty, small-town thriller that blooms in the shadows and shies from the light, "Sweet Virginia" marshals a relentlessly threatening mood from dangerous secrets and unpleasant surprises.
November 16, 2017
Despite the best efforts of a game cast, Jamie M. Dagg's atmospheric neo-noir is hamstrung by dispiritingly predictable storytelling and thinly drawn characterizations.
November 15, 2017
So much quiet dialogue that you may wish that the film would evoke more tension.
November 17, 2017
All that said, the movie is well put together, enough so that if you're not entirely tired of its clichés, it might constitute a tolerable entertainment. I'd rather watch Double Indemnity for the 15th time.
November 15, 2017
Cinema as complete as this is a rare treasure. Sweet Virginia is spellbinding.
