Criminal

I rather liked the insistent bleakness, and the presumption that the movie can get by on enough of that and not too much else. For that matter, I liked the fairly flat acting, which to my mind was particularly realistic: that is to say, most acting after all is over-acting. The flat, absurd plot (how could he not even give a moment's thought to whether he would conceivably get away with it?) leaves our attention on the "how this sort of thing could happen" aspects, which are actually interesting. I mean "absurd" there rather like "Absurdist", and in case you can't tell, this is meant as a *positive* comment!