It’s the kind of West Texas town you’ve seen in a thousand movies — not just tranquil but barren, stock-still, a real desolation row, like a postcard that may or may not contain living things. Mich…
” is one of those bone-dry minimalist dramas in which it’s hard to say whether it’s the town that’s so sparse, arid, and motionless or simply the film itself. Why is it that only five people seem to live there, and that they happen to be the only five characters in the movie? “The Quarry” is so diagrammed that it uses its undernourished dark-side-of-the-heartland atmosphere to excuse the fact that nothing of note is really taking place.
It sounds like the set-up for a film noir from the late ’50s, but one of the beauties of good noir was the way that it found joy in depravity. “The Quarry,” with its stoic sinner who is out for redemption , is more like Robert Duvall’s “The Apostle” remade as a draggy, reductive TV-movie.
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