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The performance is taciturn and nonverbal; he’s got a mouthpiece in Will Patton’s folksy narration, but what Edgerton is doing is worth leaning in for, complex and fascinating.

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Curry was extraordinarily good on the pitch and spectacularly taciturn in the aftermath.

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The case unexpectedly connects two other traumatic incidents that have happened in the mountainous wilds — at least one of which directly involves the taciturn Kyle, grieving the death of his young son.

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Anyone who likes this kind of pulp knows these avenging angel characters are more or less the same: intense, taciturn, minimalist.

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Later that day, the couples go out for a rather awkward dinner, where the men are taciturn and grumpy and the women gab away.

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