American Insurrection

The well-cast lead actors infuse their characters with a persuasive and compelling sense of urgency, greatly enhancing the stretches of worst-case scenario suspense.

The talents are great to watch. Each holds their own with the screen time they get and execute the character well enough to give meaning to the story they are telling.

The second act of the movie is so intent on a slow-burn that it takes forever to get to the good stuff. Hang with it, however, and you'll find the movie sticks the landing solidly.

A taught thriller with well-developed characters and a world that doesn't seem far from our own.

It's a disturbing premise bolstered by believable characters and the tension that director William Sullivan, who wrote the script with actor Jarret Kerr, deftly ratchets up.

At its best American Insurrection transcends its politics.

American Insurrection becomes a cautionary tale of sorts, a crude depiction of xenophobia, racism and local terrorism... and the way this inherent violence ultimately affects both sides, every side.

An exercise in tension you won't want to miss. American Insurrection is a depiction of a hypothesis that's sadly more possible than we thought.

a bleakly confronting portrait of a society whose hatreds are rooted in self-loathing, and of an America whose different people, riven by anger, denial and scapegoating, struggle to accept themselves as much as others.

Riveting, powerful. A cautionary tale ... An intense pot-boiling character study and societal study that is emotionally raw and visceral.