Burn Country

Name: Burn Country
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Released: December 9, 2016
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 60

2016

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Orion Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: After being exiled from Afghanistan, a former war journalist (Dominic Rains) who worked as a fixer in his home country settles in a small town in Northern California and takes a job with a local newspaper. But when he attempts to cover local crime, he stumbles into local corruption that puts himself and others in danger.

Director: Ian Olds

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, War

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Lauren Humphries-Brooks

Dec 4, 2016

A well-acted, slow burning indie, The Fixer uses thriller mechanisms to examine insular, tribal cultures through the eyes of an outsider. Read full review

Soren Andersen

Dec 7, 2016

The performances are first rate, particularly Rains’ work in the lead role. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Dec 4, 2016

While Olds and Paul Felten’s screenplay requires some significant credulity leaps, The Fixer is flavorsome, engaging and unpredictable enough that one can give those gaps a pass, at least to an extent. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Dec 8, 2016

Mr. Rains, Ms. Leo and Mr. Franco are all so interesting that you wish they had more to bite into. But the film has a transfixing quality nonetheless. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Dec 7, 2016

The result is more of an interesting thesis than a compelling drama, but it’s anchored by Rains’ sturdy performance as a man whose open-minded curiosity about his new home disengages his natural wariness, for both better and worse. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 8, 2016

There’s plenty of intelligence and atmosphere in play here.... But the prevailing tone is of pressure applied and nothing released, a genre exercise that plays as educational rather than exhilarating. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Dec 4, 2016

For a film that warns against believing in a mirage, Burn Country seems all too comfortable perpetuating one. Read full review

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Meth-dude

Dec 11, 2016

It had an interesting premise, the acting was good and the cinematography was beautiful, but the movie was boring, there were quite a few plot holes and the movie didn't make a lot of sense.

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