Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Ray Pride

Undertow

David Gordon Green broke out at Toronto a few years back with George Washington. With his third feature, Green once again takes a close look at the intimacies of small-town America. But here, with a virtual remake of Night of the Hunter, he can't quite make the transition to more conventional storytelling. It's not that the movie is painfully bad or anything close. But it never quite clicks in either. This may turn out to be Green's The Underneath, the Soderbergh remake of Criss Cross, that didn't quite work, but is clearly one of the experimental templates that led Soderbergh to his greatest successes as a filmmaker, including The Limey and Erin Brockovich, and Traffic.

- by David Poland