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‘Rebel Ridge’ Review: Jeremy Saulnier’s Veteran-on-the-Run Riff Fails to Draw Fresh Blood
In Jeremey Saulnier's 'Rebel Ridge,' Aaron Pierre's casting adds new dimensions to a familiar premise but the result is still predictable.
Aaron Pierre(“Genius: MLK/X”) plays Terry Richmond, a veteran of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) who’s knocked off his bicycle and detained by two police officers, Marston (David Denman) and Lann (Emory Cohen), while traveling to the town of Shelby Springs to bail out his cousin Mike (C.J. While the film is further packed with character actors making a meal out of their minor roles, Robb as McBride and Zsane Jhe as the police force’s sole Black woman, Jessica Sims, deliver deeper human connections with Terry that by circumstance or design are absent from the other locals. Robb’s roles on film since her breakout turns in “Because of Winn-Dixie” and “Bridge to Terabithia” have proved slightly anemic, but her work here shows that steady opportunities on television have kept her talents sharp, and she makes McBride into someone more complex than Shelby Springs’ sole white do-gooder.
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