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(1 - 8) of 8 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1   "There's no escaping the fact that the film, well-crafted though it may be, is ultimately just as slow as the proverbial molasses."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti "Though none of the boys, now young men, talks about it, they all bear burdens of rejection and rage."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs B "Good natural performances."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz C+ "An evocative portrait of the hardluck rural South, populated by animalistic archetypes, that falters whenever Nichols tries to turn those mythic forces into emotional individuals, ripping them from the primal story to which they belong."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 4/5 "Shotgun Stories is, at heart, a film about people who discover what they have to let go of, and who confront the terrifying possibility of hope."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 2.5/4 "Alternately terse and elegiac, Shotgun Stories works best when it observes the lives of its main characters, three lower-class brothers from southeast Arkansas."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp "There is much to "Shotgun Stories" that elevates it above the fray of Green derivatives and unflattering categorizations, bolstered by a roster of naturalistic, fully assimilated performances, led by "Bug"'s now ubiquitous Michael Shannon."   indieWIRE   Leo Goldsmith 2.5/4 "I'm sick of the kind of exceptional that Shotgun Stories represents."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 8) of 8 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1