Moxie User Rating
6.8 stars out of 10 (46 votes) - login or register to rate this film
Synopsis
Sure this one has been out a while, but with all the Golden Globe nods and Oscar buzz, we thought we’d bring it to The Moxie for a week for those who hadn’t had a chance to catch it at the other theaters in town. HISTORY OF VIOLENCE follows Tom Stall (Mortensen), who’s living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Bello) and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, until one night their idyllic existence is shattered when Tom foils a vicious attempted robbery in his diner.
Film Information
- Genre: Drama | Suspense | Thriller
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Written By: Josh Olson, John Wagner (graphic novel), Vince Locke (graphic novel)
- Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Ashton Holmes, Heidi Hayes, Stephen McHattie, Greg Bryk, and Peter MacNeill
- Running Time: 96 minutes
- MPAA Rating: R
- Language: English
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Reviews
"Other films this year will have to sweat bullets to match the explosive power and subversive wit of David Cronenberg's A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. It slams you like a body punch and then starts messing with your head."
- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"A masterpiece of indirection and pure visceral thrills, David Cronenberg's latest mindblower, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, is the feel-good, feel-bad movie of the year."
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"Violence is in the spirit of the hardest-hitting film noir offerings from the '50s, but far more explicit. It's also in the spirit of the Western."
- Mike Clark, USA Today
"This masterpiece, an art film deftly masquerading as a thriller, seems to celebrate small-town pastoralism and critique big-city violence, but this position turns out to be double-edged."
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
"David Cronenberg's brilliant movie -- without a doubt one of the very best of the year."
- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Showtimes
- Wednesday, February 1st
4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm - Thursday, February 2nd
4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm - Friday, February 3rd
7:00 pm - Saturday, February 4th
4:30 pm, 9:15 pm - Sunday, February 5th
4:30 pm - Monday, February 6th
4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm - Tuesday, February 7th
4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm