Genre: Film
Grade: A-
Notable People: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby, James Badge Dale, Directed by: Nia DeCosta
Title: Little Woods
Review: Made the one hour schlep up to Dartmouth to the art theater to get our monthly adult movie fix…and worth it. Quiet, very dark movie about two down and out sister trying to get by in oil boom North Dakota. They find themselves falling into the illegal world of the cross-border drug trade ingot Canada after their mother dies. Very real, non- glamorous movie about average people getting in over their heads in drug peddling for survival reasons, and the dark world that surrounds this business- no glory, no super heroes, no happy endings or violent shoot outs. The characters are very well developed and the two leads (Thompson, who wrote the film and James) are excellent. This is a sleeper worth seeing.