This article reviews the Netflix film 'Rebel Ridge', praising its B-movie charm and the performance of its lead actor, Aaron Pierre. It also reflects on the changing landscape of film distribution and the increasing appeal of streaming services.
We get it—there is simply too much. So, as in years past, we are giving our editors a last-minute opportunity to plug the things that maybe got away. See all the things you really should have read, watched, or listened to—as well as more of our year in review coverage—here. I still remember squeezing into a theater to see writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s white-knuckle thriller Green Room in 2015.
That movie, about a scrappy punk band terrorized by white supremacists, was the coolest action movie in ages—and the audience knew it. (I sat front row, in the only remaining seat.) Green Room was also the last time the talented Saulnier had a movie with a proper theatrical release. His next thriller, 2018’s Hold the Dark, went to Netflix, and this fall the streamer debuted yet another Saulnier creation: the police-misconduct revenge flick Rebel Ridge. I want to insist that this is a shame and nothing compares to the theatrical experience. But I also want to say that watching Rebel Ridge at home on my iPad over two separate weeknights this fall was one of the most sheerly pleasurable experiences of my entire year. Where should movies be? Clearly the right answer is theaters, where they can produce communal cultural experiences and get their visual and aural due. But I would like to say that Rebel Ridge, which has the soul of a B-movie but the talent, vigor, and style of something far finer, should be exactly where it is—on any screen at hand, where at a moment’s notice, you can decide to acquaint yourself with the depthless talents of its leading man, Aaron Pierre. Who? I myself had seen this actor only fleetingly, in one or two small things, but now I’m deeply committed to his burgeoning career as an A-list action hero. Pierre plays Terry Richmond, who first appears on a (quite nice) gravel bike, pedaling down a Louisiana country road. A squad car sideswipes him to the pavement and a shakedown commence
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