Swerve 2012

Sara Stewart, New York Post: It's enjoyable enough, but low on novelty, beyond the stark beauty of the sun-bleached Outback landscape. Read more

Richard Kuipers, Variety: Staple pulp ingredients -- a girl, a gun, a stranger, a crooked cop and a suitcase full of hot cash -- are neatly moved around a dusty outback town in the juicy Aussie thriller Swerve. Read more

Megan Lehmann, Hollywood Reporter: The sun-bleached terrain of the Australian outback is not the natural habitat of the noir thriller, so Craig Lahiff's feisty genre outing is a neat surprise. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: As it zigs and zags, its plot unravels rather than tightens, and its curveball of an ending is bound to leave audiences feeling as double-crossed as some of the characters. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The story is uninspired, Lyons looks lost, and Booth makes for a bland femme fatale. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: As the title of "Swerve" suggests, there's a lot of driving, and cars and characters veer, though never far enough for either to arrive at some place, some narrative, that's remotely new. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: You've got your duplicitous blonde, a briefcase full of money, the hapless patsy, the angry cop, the loose cannon and the speeding train. Everything's so in order that you could doze off and catch up with the plot within seconds of reawakening. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: The more narrative wrenches this modern-day noir throws at its characters-notably several literally physics-defying leaps of logic-the less involving it becomes. There are a few too many twists on this highway. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: Regardless of its title, it's a film that sluggishly sticks to the neo noir straight-and-narrow. Read more