By Anton Bitel
A hardened detective teams up with a young Edgar Allen Poe to solve a murder in Scott Cooper's chilly thriller.
By Anton Bitel
A horned entity stalks Keri Russell’s school teacher in director Scott Cooper’s allegorical American horror story.
Christian Bale gives it his actorly all as a jaded cavalry gunslinger in Scott Cooper’s dour, old-timey western.
By Vadim Rizov
Despite Johnny Depp’s best efforts, this by the numbers gangster biopic doesn’t do its story justice.
By Matt Thrift
A magnetic Christian Bale adds much-needed gravitas to this otherwise conventional blue-collar revenge saga.
Writer/director Scott Cooper clearly has potential, but he has trusted too much in his star alone.
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