The film’s first-time director, Ross McCall, has written a gruelling script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2022

The chthonic atmosphere is oddly mesmerising, perhaps because - like a prison sentence - it wears you down eventually.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2022

... the film is still a worthy installment in the neo-noir cannon, if only for its pursuit of a story that isn't styled after Harmony Korine's particular brand of "chaos in paradise" narratives in America's southeastern corridor.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2019

A thoughtful character-driven thriller is buried somewhere beneath the clichés that eventually overwhelm this uneven mixed-martial arts melodrama.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2019

Writer-director Matthew Berkowitz's crime drama "A Violent Man" has all the pungent cynicism of a classic film noir but lacks the urgency.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2019

A Violent Man is a good film with a good cast and story. Fans of film noir are going to appreciate the final product.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 8, 2019

Doesn't offer much to make it worth contender status.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 8, 2019

A Violent Man struggles to be a sports film and a thriller, stripping either of any sense of dramatic urgency.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2019

What seems, at first, to be an indie crime thriller reveals itself, upon conclusion, to be much deeper in its examination of not just a soul cast into purgatory, but of fate itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 7, 2019

An MMA fighter murder mystery that never makes much of the mystery.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2019

A thriller that punches above its weight. There are some twists and turns that I wasn't expecting; and to director Matthew Berkowitz's credit, it's a film that follows through on its promises to the very end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2019