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And while you might shuffle in your seat a little during the film, but like last year's other unnerving British surprise, "Kill List" (that film admittedly much more of a pure genre exercise than this), you come out of the theater on edge and off kilter, amazed at the craft displayed. It's hard not to wish, at least for the more narratively-inclined among us, that Strickland had made things a little less wilfully opaque, particularly in the somewhat abrupt conclusion. And as welcome as the humor is, it does drift into caricature every so often. But despite the minor blips, it's as original and absorbing a picture as we've seen in a while, an experience like few others in 2012, and should mark Strickland's arrival on the world scene in a big way. [A-]
