The film itself wallows seductively in the twisted, consumptive murk of America's small towns.

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John Dahl's best trick is adeptly blending suspense and comedy, all keyed to split-second timing.

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Red Rock West doesn't break any new ground, but it is a supremely confident, blackly comic, oddly humane addition to the noir genre.

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Like the best of film noir, Red Rock West has a convoluted, suspenseful plot, a crackling sense of humor, and stylish visuals.

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What a pleasure to see a kiss-bang thriller in which both forms of consummation are dealt out slowly, teasingly, appetisingly, rather than force-fed to us from frame one.

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The actors are relegated to the status of moving props.

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It's dark, moody and twisted.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2025

Red Rock West is lean and unpretentiously artful.

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Almost any film starring Nicolas Cage is guaranteed a degree of eccentricity, and this is made even more wildly off-beat by casting Dennis Hopper as a Texan gun for hire.

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Red Rock West isn't perfect... But it looks sharp, sounds great, features the usual solid performances from the under-appreciated Cage and Walsh, and a trademark maniacal spin by Hopper.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2025

It serves up its stock elements in an engaging mixture of menace and unblushing farce.

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If your view of small-town life is dark and deadly, Red Rock West walks those seamy streets in style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2025

Writer-director John Dahl and his brother, co-writer Rick, aren't the Coen brothers... But they've got their share of talent, and they carry out their familiar genre twists with demonic glee and a fine coating of small-town dust.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2025

Red Rock West is a snappy little noirish thriller with a dynamite cast, a strong script and a compelling sense of momentum.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2025

This is tightly scripted and a barrel of laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 15, 2025

Neither deep nor cheap, this thriller will keep you guessing about who to trust, if anyone.

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Most of it is fun on a low level, none any more than that.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 15, 2025

Dahl's actors pick right up on his aim to have fun with this B-movie material, but not to mock it.

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Enjoyable thanks to the acting -- especially by J.T. Walsh.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2025

It moves along smartly enough to deliver a thrill, if little else.

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