Rising star Jared Abrahamson (four films at VIFF this year) and Glee’s Dianna Agron are your best reasons to catch this thriller, even if his troubled misfit disappears from the movie inside 15 minutes. As his sister, Agron sets out to prove that her fugitive little bro didn’t murder his girlfriend’s monster of a father, while markedly unsympathetic local cops do everything to obstruct her—or some of them do, anyway. The film’s depiction of small-town B.C. feels more considerate and lived-in than usual (Castlegar plays itself), while director Scooter Corkle proves with his debut feature that he can bring some movement and a few other ancillary charms to a thing as basically dispiriting as a Telefilm-funded action whodunit. 

Georgia Straight, September 2017