While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
A tense, engrossing Texas thriller with a sense of humor as sharp and wounding as a Bowie knife.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
29 May 2014
fresh:
Pulp fiction doesn't come much better than Cold in July, a gritty, grisly - and perversely giddy - crime yarn directed by Pottstown-born indie-film provocateur Jim Mickle.
– Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
30 May 2014
rotten:
Hall does his best to make sense of Dane, but the plot turns simply don't add up. Good work in a not-so-good movie.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
6 Jun 2014
fresh:
Initially the late-80s setting of Cold in July registers as kitsch, but it grows more evocative as the Carpenter impersonation gives way to something weirder and uglier.
– Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
12 Jun 2014
fresh:
A well-paced story that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats as it bucks and rolls in unexpected directions to a bloody and satisfying climax.