Those Who Wish Me Dead

— This thriller grows on you, taking its own time to focus everyone’s stories so they intersect and pick up steam, managing to pit the primary characters against both man and nature—if the gun-toting hitmen don’t get them, there’s always the raging fire headed their way from the other direction! It strikes me as the kind of film that people will claim suffers from an uneasy pace, or too little motivation and backstory, but the pacing seems appropriate to me and the flashbacks and early scenes satisfied my need for backstory. In the end it’s about coming to terms with your own past and demons and bouncing back. It’s a story of redemption. I was happy to while away part of an afternoon watching it. [HBO Max streaming.]

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[2021. 100 min. Directed by Taylor Sheridan. Starring Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal, and Aidan Gillen.]
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