Blue Ruin
Why this pick
A stripped-back, bruising revenge thriller with the same sense of a damaged man stumbling back into a violent past and making every situation worse.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
A stripped-back, bruising revenge thriller with the same sense of a damaged man stumbling back into a violent past and making every situation worse.
Why this pick
Its deadpan humor and tarnished hometown investigator echo Small Crimes' blend of failure, crime, and melancholy, while gradually letting the darkness underneath take hold.
Why this pick
A wintry, morally corrosive crime spiral driven by flawed ordinary people; it shares the escalating bad decisions and bleakly ironic tension of Small Crimes.
Why this pick
A tightly wound tale of one terrible mistake multiplying into panic, guilt, and desperate cover-ups, with an equally unforgiving small-community atmosphere.
Why this pick
For the unusually effective mix of grubby criminal panic, bone-dry absurdity, and men whose increasingly awful choices cannot stay buried.
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01 / THE STORY
After serving a six-year prison sentence, an ex-cop tries to rebuild his life in his hometown, but gets caught up in the fallout from his past.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

Charlotte Boyd

Scotty
Earl
Phil Coakley
Vlad

Chaplin
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Manny Vassey