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  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Nine-year-old Daniel lives in a town outside of Nashville. Daniel sees his sister sneak out the door and follows to a dark, secluded spot in the woods, where she is killed. Fifteen years later, Daniel lives at home with his mom and teen brother Aaron. The killer has never been caught. Struggling to find his path in life, Daniel works at ...

Directed By: Kerem Sanga

Written By: Kerem Sanga

  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 47 m

The Violent Heart

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary Nine-year-old Daniel lives in a town outside of Nashville. Daniel sees his sister sneak out the door and follows to a dark, secluded spot in the woods, where she is killed. Fifteen years later, Daniel lives at home with his mom and teen brother Aaron. The killer has never been caught. Struggling to find his path in life, Daniel works at ...

Directed By: Kerem Sanga

Written By: Kerem Sanga

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
50
20% Positive
2 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 10 Critic Reviews
50
20% Positive
2 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review

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75
Feb 18, 2021
If this one still bites off more than it can chew, its ambition nevertheless reaffirms Sanga as a skilled and emotionally sensitive filmmaker who’s attuned to the low-frequency wavelengths that tend to get flattened out by stories with this kind of sweep.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 18, 2021
Some of these central relationships are inappropriate, even dangerous, but the subtlety of Sanga’s filmmaking allows for big twists to come as a genuine surprise. It makes for a successful manipulation of his audience’s expectations, even if the overall effect is a movie that feels slightly detached.
By Teo Bugbee FULL REVIEW
58
Apr 15, 2021
The Violent Heart lies somewhere between a chasm that divides soft-peddled melodrama and Young Adult fiction. It's unlikely director/writer Kerem Sanga intended the story to be categorized as either melodramatic or Young Adult.
By Thom Ernst FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 25, 2021
Going into The Violent Heart, you must understand that the ending is insanely ridiculous. This is not to say that it’s not entertaining — in a way, it’s even more entertaining for being insanely ridiculous. But by the end, you will in no way be able to regard The Violent Heart as anything resembling a serious movie.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 19, 2021
A promising but self-thwarting movie like this is more depressing than an outright bad or dumb film.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 18, 2021
There’s a lot to like in The Violent Heart, with Adepo at the top of the list. But Sanga errs by giving his movie the deterministic structure of a potboiler and the muted tone of a slice-of-life indie drama.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
20
Feb 19, 2021
Anodyne and asinine in equal measures, The Violent Heart is just brainless.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

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Production Company 21 Laps Entertainment, 3311 Productions, Endeavor Content, Material Pictures
Release Date Feb 19, 2021
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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