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Cold In July
On a summer night in 1989 in Texas, Richard Dane awakens to the sound of a burglar breaking into his house and shoots the intruder dead. Richard soon has to face the revenge of Ben Russel – the ex-con father of the burglar. Desperate for the help of the police, Richard decides to seek out what really happened that night to protect his family.
10 July 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 April 1962, New York City, New York, USA
15 December 1949, Flat Creek, Missouri, USA
October 10, 2014
The 'That's for the hat' speech is a delicious bit of fun, but the film's final third is so derivative and keen to shock if feels like a different movie entirely.
May 29, 2014
It is a brutal, beautifully shot movie that starts out to be about revenge but then becomes something more, something even more primal and disturbing.
May 30, 2014
Pulp fiction doesn't come much better than Cold in July, a gritty, grisly - and perversely giddy - crime yarn directed by Pottstown-born indie-film provocateur Jim Mickle.
October 26, 2014
A heart-stoppingly tense, cunningly twisty crime thriller
April 18, 2016
Bristling with sharp surprises at every dark turn, punctuated by crackling performances from a first-rate cast and filmed with a haunting moodiness, Cold in July is a perfect little film
June 14, 2016
[Cold in July is] an absorbing take on the modern family noir, a movie that knows the devil's in the details.
June 12, 2014
Initially the late-80s setting of Cold in July registers as kitsch, but it grows more evocative as the Carpenter impersonation gives way to something weirder and uglier.
July 31, 2015
A few too many twists and turns, but Johnson and Shepard help save it
June 06, 2014
Hall does his best to make sense of Dane, but the plot turns simply don't add up. Good work in a not-so-good movie.
May 29, 2014
A tense, engrossing Texas thriller with a sense of humor as sharp and wounding as a Bowie knife.
December 11, 2014
A well-paced story that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats as it bucks and rolls in unexpected directions to a bloody and satisfying climax.
June 21, 2016
While the unforeseen places it goes kept me engaged, unearned character motivations, and an awkward genre balance prevent this from being a knock-out exploitation noir entry.