Lawless is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, three bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.
6 February 1986, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
17 July 1969, Winton, Queensland, Australia
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
19 March 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
11 June 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 September 1969, London, England, UK
24 March 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
June 29, 2016
The recurring act of violence In 'Lawless' is a brass-knuckle punch to the throat. It's not pretty. The movie's not pretty either, but it's an instant gangster classic.
August 31, 2012
Fans of The Proposition will have to settle for sublimely evil performances by Gary Oldman (as a murderous rival) and Guy Pearce (as a government agent) and a large quotient of gut-wrenching violence.
August 30, 2012
With a dynamite cast, an iconic screenwriter in rocker Nick Cave and an Aussie director in John Hillcoat, you assume a new classic. What you get is an ambitious try.
June 14, 2013
It's slight and casual to the point of laziness, but it's straight fun, done with knowledge and a laconic pleasure. You could do far worse.
August 30, 2012
You can sense the filth, and smell the rust, and feel the ingrained poverty that might well convince a family of survivors (of World War I and the Spanish flu) to make their fortune selling moonshine to their neighbors.
May 03, 2015
Tom Hardy must just hate being audible.
July 01, 2013
Hillcoat makes a foray into Virginia's Prohibition-era moonshine country. But the adaptation (by Hillcoat compadre Nick Cave) is a hokey piece of pop history that wearyingly insists upon its own mythos like a comic-book blockbuster.
April 15, 2016
A stylish, streamlined, and thrilling prohibition era action yarn.
May 10, 2016
The film has jolts of dread and calculated savagery, and yet it feels prosaic and uninspired.
June 30, 2013
This fact-based drama succeeds because of its great cast and its strong story of loyalty and brotherhood.
September 03, 2012
The center of narrative gravity is hard to locate; for whom are we rooting, and does anything really ripple outward from this nasty local fight?
August 30, 2012
There's something at the movie's heart that remains flimsy and inauthentic, a kid in his older brother's ill-fitting shoes.
