Fresh
Despair is not quiet for a broken father (Aaron Paul) and his troublemaker sons in Kat Candler's brisk, transfixing drama, which takes place in blue-collar southeast Texas.
Lindsey Bahr, Entertainment Weekly
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Hellion
Overview
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.
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59%
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Rotten
"Hellion" pads its slender, commonplace, but potentially rewarding premise with contrivances, cliches, repetitiousness, and, when all else fails, implausible, arbitrary melodrama.
Peter Keough, Boston Globe
Rotten
Wiggins gives the boy's struggles a raw realism, but it's not enough to shore up this slackly paced slice of sunbaked Texas miserabilism.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten
Not that inarticulate characters can't be compelling if they are written with subtlety, acted with insight and, most of all, framed by a directorial vision, but "Hellion," despite a promising debut from Wiggins, falls short in at least two of the above.
Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic
Fresh
The acting overall is strong, but Paul, still testing the waters after "Breaking Bad," is extraordinarily controlled.
Tom Long, Detroit News
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