A miserable, dejected little flick. Hoffman’s reliably superb while Albert Finney, as the lads’ father, is as good as he’s ever been. Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead blu-ray Trailer Emotionally brutal, ferociously acted, crafted with unflagging expertise and relentlessly locked in its vision of human darkness, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead is as grim and despairing as any tragedy by Sophocles or Shakespeare. Lumet navigates the shifting narrative nimbly, and effortlessly handles the plot twists and emotional beats with equal precision. Nothing in Lumets filmography has contained the back alley, concrete-block pummeling of Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, a masterful, rampaging descent into the quicksand hell of desperation. In an astounding piece of filmmaking, 83-year-old director Sidney Lumet and writer Kelly Masterson provide the years most unusual theater-going experience — a powerful film that will shock, surprise, thrill and amaze you.
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