Lawless – review

Six years ago the musician Nick Cave and the director John Hillcoat made the visually striking, ultra-violent outback western, The Proposition, a return to the glory days of Australian cinema.Their new film, similarly celebrating an intransigently independent, anti-social clan engaged in a fight with oppressive authorities, is less coherent and persuasive. The setting is now the backwoods of Virginia in 1931, the last days of prohibition, where a corrupt new law enforcement officer, the sadistic...

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