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Apr 27, 2017 · Film Review: ‘Sweet Virginia’. Part neo-noir, part latter-day Western, this exceptional indie thriller delivers well-acted character insights amid its shadowy, small-town Alaskan setting....
Nov 17, 2017 · Sweet Virginia. 93 minutes ‧ R ‧ 2017. Glenn Kenny. November 17, 2017. 3 min read. In his 1956 essay “On A Book Entitled Lolita,” Vladimir Nabokov recounts both the imaginative origins of his groundbreaking novel and the difficulty he had finding a publisher for it in the United States.
Nov 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.
- Jamie M. Dagg
A small Alaskan community is left reeling by an act of violence. Jamie M. Dagg's thriller tenderly explores its aftermath without the glib, jokey cynicism that so often marks the...
Apr 23, 2017 · Playing a mumble-mouthed hitman who likes to toy with his prey, Abbott sets the tone for this nerve-shredding neo-noir; it’s a story about a one-man crimewave that sweeps through a small town...
Nov 22, 2017 · The arty thriller “Sweet Virginia” is less a “neo-noir” than a “meta-noir,” dropping desperate characters into a twisty plot that eventually becomes a comment on the entire genre.
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A languorously slow film that drips like the golden honey in the Stones song, Sweet Virginia is a simple story told very, very well. To say that it recalls the early work of the Coen brothers or the more lyrical films of David Lynch is not to praise it too highly.
