Aselton is clearly trying to broaden her reach as both actress and director beyond the rumpled indie comedy of "The Freebie," her directing debut, and the concept is there, but a movie li...
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Black Rock is as dingy and dirty as the genre thrillers it appears to want to one-up. All it does, though, is bring everyone down.
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The dialogue is particularly bad, which is odd because the Duplass crowd typically excels at natural-sounding dialogue.
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It’s all a fair attempt, but Aselton isn’t going to make anyone forget Kathryn Bigelow.
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[Aselton's] disregard for her male characters causes Black Rock to spiral into dudette "Deliverance."
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Ultimately, it’s hard to shake the sense that her picture is a character study bending itself, painfully and unnaturally, into the shape of a nightmare-in-the-boonies horror flick. Is thi...
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The male characters here are too thinly developed for this to be a top-notch survival thriller, but Ms. Aselton knows how to get the pulse pounding.
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It's quite thin, but at least Black Rock plays its "kills" for more than stupid gamer's diversions.
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This indie, female-centric riff on “Deliverance” is spare, smartly written and shot through with moments of twig-snapping tension.
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