![]() But after a while, I felt that I wasn't watching a complex drama so much as an elaborate thesis about the banality of evil and the abuse of power - especially in patches of blue-collar America where evangelical Christianity holds sway. I was never bored over the course of the movie's two-hour-plus running time. The movie is based on a densely plotted 2011 novel by the Ohio-born author Donald Ray Pollock, and it's grim in ways that can be both exciting and a little wearying: so many twists and betrayals, so many horrific acts of violence. The Devil All the Time, now streaming on Netflix, has enough awful characters, festering secrets and dead bodies to furnish a whole TV series, though I'm not sure I'd want to see a longer version of this story. ![]() Tom Holland plays Arvin, a young man who refuses to let evil go unpunished in The Devil All the Time. ![]()
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