Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in the Texas hills. Although Ruth wounds a local officer, Bob takes the blame. But four years later, Bob escapes from prison and sets out to find Ruth and their daughter, born during his incarceration.
A slow, banjo-string-tight thriller ... Bodies gets under your skin and stays there.
– Cath Clarke,
Time Out,
4 Sep 2013
fresh:
This Sundance-sanctioned, love-on-the-run melodrama is indie filmmaking of a deliberately timeless sort.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
29 Aug 2013
fresh:
A lyrical modern Western that casts a contemporary but un-jaded eye on the romantic mythology of outlaw couples.
– Michael Sragow,
Orange County Register,
29 Aug 2013
rotten:
Writer-director David Lowery strains for poetry at every turn, and only the strain registers.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
29 Aug 2013
fresh:
Lowery has a lyrical style of storytelling that is delicate and subtle yet suffused with emotion and atmosphere. It's gentle and pointed at the same time.