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Bushwick
When a Texas military force invades their Brooklyn neighborhood, 20-year-old Lucy and war veteran Stupe must depend on each other to survive.
9 July 1960, Fort Motte, South Carolina, USA
7 February 1991, Marseille, France
9 March 1986, Tampa, Florida, USA
August 24, 2017
The action feels far too staged to convince as a realistic scenario, and it all feels like a hollow exercise...August 24, 2017
[Bushwick] is a real-time thriller that plays out in a series of extended takes.August 24, 2017
A chilling idea and an interesting central performance are undercut by pretty much everything else in this apocalyptic action film about a second American Civil War.August 25, 2017
The sort of thing your Dad might watch on his day off work, and then completely forget about.August 24, 2017
Snow and Bautista deliver serviceable performances, and glimmers of humour give welcome relief in this darkly moody tale.August 25, 2017
Bautista is strong but others feel out of their depth.August 24, 2017
Bushwick never achieves what it sets out to do. It's undone by a litany of bad decisions and the underlying weakness of the core material.August 25, 2017
Bushwick is an unpolished work, but there's an adrenalin charge, sure thing. It's close combat and it's closer than most Americans might wish to believe.August 24, 2017
From its lurid early scenes onward, Bushwick walks a razor-thin line between Carpenter-esque political nihilism and outright exploitation.August 25, 2017
"Bushwick" is an uncompromising film that makes the most of whatever budget constraints it was filmed under and has a from-the-ground-up realism that makes it almost uncomfortable to watch.August 24, 2017
90 minutes of real time that feels like five minutes of story and eighty-five minutes of "Why am I following these people and their every walking/running step?"August 25, 2017
This movie will lose the goodwill of any longtime New Yorker watching it within the first ten minutes.