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      • A jumbled, fitfully amusing, occasionally fascinating effort, but one that shows promise even when it's stumbling over its ambition and falling prey to some of the same stereotypes about "red" and "blue" (or reactionary and progressive) America that it keeps intimating that Americans need to get beyond.
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  2. Jul 29, 2022 · The story begins in earnest when New Yorker writer and aspiring public intellectual Ben Manalowitz (Novak) gets a call at his Manhattan apartment late one night from Ty Shaw (Boyd Holbrook), who lives in one of the flattest backwaters in West Texas, a small town five hours’ drive from Abilene, which is two hours and forty minutes from Dallas.

  3. Writer-director-star B.J. Novak could have taken a sharper approach to this dark comedy's deeper themes, but if you're in the mood for a slyly smart mystery, Vengeance is yours. Read Critics...

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    • B.J. Novak
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    • B.J. Novak
  4. Jun 13, 2022 · Novak introduces redneck stereotypes only to detonate them in a one-of-a-kind movie that's so wide awake and sharp-edged it marks the arrival of a potentially major filmmaker. By Owen Gleiberman...

  5. Vengeance: Directed by B.J. Novak. With B.J. Novak, Boyd Holbrook, Lio Tipton, Ashton Kutcher. A writer from New York City attempts to solve the murder of a girl he hooked up with and travels down south to investigate the circumstances of her death and discover what happened to her.

    • (38K)
    • Comedy, Music, Mystery
    • B.J. Novak
    • 2022-07-29
  6. Jul 29, 2022 · Vengeance is a small but ambitious film, and the murder mystery is its weakest element: Novak has so many threads going that he doesn’t quite know how to tie them up. But he’s made a shrewd satire that’s a pleasure to watch.

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    • B.J. Novak
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    • B.J. Novak
  7. Jul 29, 2022 · Vengeance is many things: a compelling murder mystery, a funny City Slickers update, and a critique on true crime and podcast culture. That it succeeds at all three, while also leaving us ...

  8. Jul 30, 2022 · Vengeance (2022) review — B.J. Novak's self-assured Vengeance is a darkly irreverent Texas Noir that shows enough promise to be worth your time, but the confounding experience leaves much to be desired.

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