Fresh
A lean and unapologetic piece about a type of person too often rendered in simplistic 'monster' colors.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
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The Woodsman
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After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.
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88%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[Ms. Kassell and Mr. Fechter] trick up Walter's character with so many conflicting moods and impulses and then place him within a post-prison society that is itself alternately oppressive and permissive.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
An involving, intense but ultimately confused portrait.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Fresh
To watch this picture is to feel, and what you're feeling is an intense swirl of conflicting emotions -- disturbed, creeped-out, sorry, and, yes, even moved.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
A flawed film that's well worth seeing.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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