We soon learn that Leigh (Ozark<\/em>\u2019s <\/em>Bethany Anne Lind) owns and manages the auto body shop. Her teenage son Ryan (Jared Ivers) is on probation; Leigh is trying to help him stay on the straight and narrow by giving him odd jobs around the shop. Ryan\u2019s dad is also in prison, and there\u2019s a sense that Leigh is stuck in a bad situation not entirely of her own making. Head mechanic Rey (Jimmy Gonzales) is one of the only employees to stick with Leigh after news of her husband\u2019s crimes caused the shop\u2019s business to dip. Rey also looks after Ryan, as a sort of mentor. Leigh doesn\u2019t have the look of a woman who would marry a criminal, nor someone who\u2019d commit a ruthless murder. Her pale, fresh face calls to mind a virginal Jane Austen heroine, or a rom-com sweetheart. There\u2019s a sense that her youthful promise and beauty cannot flourish in this broken, bedraggled place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leigh\u2019s father Richard (the great character actor Will Patton) is a local cop, and their relationship is strained. There\u2019s a suggestion that she disapproves of something corrupt he did in the past, and the irony of her own recent crimes and desperate attempts to cover them up, rather than contacting the authorities, make for some intriguing dramatic tension. It\u2019s as if she\u2019s too stubbornly angry at her father\u2019s past sins to ask for his help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lind is such a skillful actress that the occasional implausibility and moral ambiguity of Leigh\u2019s situation becomes compelling and rather suspenseful. We already know what she\u2019s capable of, and yet as the narrative moves forward it\u2019s clear she wants to avoid digging herself in any deeper. Things get complicated when Leigh has to face the dead man\u2019s girlfriend (Elizabeth Rohm, in a powerful small role), another woman in desperate straits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This feature debut of Matthew Pope, co-written with Don M. Thompson, is solid and well-produced. The moody cinematography and tense score give the film a satisfyingly mild horror vibe, but one where victims and heroes are not at all clearly defined. The film\u2019s final denouement is as high-energy as its beginning, a conclusion that feels both shocking and inevitable. Blood on Her Name<\/em> is less a story of redemption than one of resignation and regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Blood On Her Name” is out Friday, February 28 in limited release and on demand.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man\u2019s corpse lying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":533,"featured_media":13481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340,1381],"tags":[1098,162],"class_list":["post-13478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-movies","tag-movie-review","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/533"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22898,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions\/22898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/blood2.jpg\")
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