Poised with shark-like self-assurance, Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike) is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It’s a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover Fran (Eiza González) use with brutal efficiency on their latest “cherry,” Jennifer Peterson (Dianne Wiest) — a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster (Peter Dinklage), Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play — one that’s neither fair, nor square.

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I can count on no hands the amount of people I know that saw Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin. Which is to say, nobody, including me. This is despite the fact that Saulnier’s feature film debut was hailed by many as not just one of the best films of 2013, but one of the best American revenge thrillers of the last …

One thing I love about the festival circuit is how it shines the spotlight on brilliant little films that, due to their lack of marquee name star power, may have gone unnoticed otherwise. One such film is Blue Ruin, and boy did it ever get noticed. Written, directed, lensed and probably even catered by Jeremy Saulnier, this simple but apparently thrilling film …

They say revenge is a dish best served cold, but from what I’ve learnt from movies, it’s usually a dish best served covered in warm arterial blood. And that seems to be exactly the case in Blue Ruin, a new revenge thriller from cinematographer-turned-director/writer Jeremy Saulnier. The movie picked up nothing but crazy positive buzz when it made the rounds on …