Much of it had been obviated by the internet; its style was obsolete

the stark confrontational truculence of each makes them of the moment to me

The film is a modern giallo with an everywoman (Claire Foy) gaslit into a sketchy mental-health treatment center

Chastain looks on with louche disdain while she indulges the players’ addictions and confusions and takes large amounts of cash off them

Paul Ryan grinned his new grin, a crazy-looking rictus he had worn since the Republican National Convention

Argento plays the courtesan as alternately fawning and louche

Right up to the unsatisfying, to-be-continued ending, the film’s lugubrious quality marks Hell or High Water as an example of grievance cinema, art-directed for a new era of violent self-pity, economic decline, and racial appropriation.

They discouraged people from seeing it, but Romero’s images proved to be indelible

In expiation for his pusillanimity in the opening reel

Tightly controlled scenes avoid the pointlessness and repetition of the nouveau zombie films, limning class struggle in unexpected ways