SummarySet in the Ozark mountains, Chrystak combines red-dirt realism with the fabulist Southern literary tradition – part Flannery O'Connor, part Johnny Cash – to tell a wild and haunting tale of the power of true love. (First Look)
Directed By:Ray McKinnon
Written By:Ray McKinnon
Chrystal
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90
A grand story of redemption, laced with barbecued wit and slopped with intrigue, Chrystal is a high heaping of brilliant storytelling.
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One of those movies that sticks to your mind like a briar to wool slacks. It has no revelations, no high drama, no heartbreaking tragedy. What it does have is bone-deep honesty, and that's enough for once.
70
Respectable piece of work is reasonably involving if not compelling.
67
Even at its most contrived, the filmmakers believe in this project so passionately that its atmosphere seems absolutely real.
60
If the people in Chrystal are intended to be authentic, why do none of them look like they've ever seen the inside of a Wal-Mart?
60
McKinnon's direction is nothing if not atmospheric -- his best scenes unfold with a pungent languor that suggests the power of the backwoods to turn hours into days and days into years. If only the sum total were a movie more "In the Bedroom" than it is everything-but-the-kitchen-sink.
60
Dark and quiet is the tone from start to finish.
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