Fresh
Gun Hill Road is shot through with performances at once intense and relaxed.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Gun Hill Road
You can't escape who you are.
2011 · 1h 26m · R
Drama
Directed by
Rashaad Ernesto Green
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Gun Hill Road
Overview
An ex-con returns home to the Bronx after three year in prison to discover his wife estranged and his teenage son exploring a sexual transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.
Director and cast
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65%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Feels like it's been workshopped, from its string of coincidences to its tidy downbeat conclusion in which Green stabs at irony with a dull knife.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh
Before some predictable, freedom-threatening recidivism on Enrique's part, the film exhibits a simultaneously anthropological and sensitive interest in Michael's day-to-day life...
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
In writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green's assured hands, "Gun Hill Road" manages somehow to be gritty, delicate, in your face and nuanced at the same time.
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
Tenderness and good intentions don't necessarily add up to a movie.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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