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'Bring Them Down' review: Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott's sheep herding thriller is a brutal must-watch

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64% Informative

Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan go head-to-head in Bring Them Down .

The sheep herding drama is a vicious saga of feuding families, toxic masculinity, and the poor, innocent sheep caught in the middle of it all.

The film is an examination of toxic masculinity.

It picks up several years after the opening car crash in western Ireland .

The entire sequence, like the opening car crash, feels like a grounded nightmare from which there is no escape.

Hannah Peel's thumping, percussion-heavy score is pure sonic dread.

There's no forgetting the horrors they've wrought or their near-pitiable final confrontation.

VR Score

54

Informative language

46

Neutral language

29

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

40

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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