Everyone knows that except director Jeremy Saulnier, who hires Jeffrey Wright to play the expert in all things lupine (the canine critters, not the flowers). Wright’s character, Russell Core, gets a plaintive message from Medora Slone (Riley Keough), whose son has just been taken. Actually, a whole mess of things are amiss, and the longer you stick with Hold the Dark, the more you’ll realize that when a local cop (James Badge Dale) says, “I’m not convinced the answers exist,” he’s speaking for all of us. Hold the Dark, which sounds like a strange sandwich order, is beautifully shot; the contrast between the gloomy Alaskan winter and the scenes in Iraq are particularly striking. And Wright retains his always-watchability, nursing a psychic wound that suggests he’s more at home with wolves than people.

Source: National Post September 27, 2018 18:33 UTC