Cop Car

Watts walks us innocents out into the landscape where Hollywood has made its greatest myths and then removes the blindfold.

Anchored by solid performances and a taut script, Cop Car is a tension-filled thrill ride.

Despite the occasional pothole, Cop Car is an arresting ride.

[Cop Car features] the most evil monologue of the year. Perfectly, horribly, fantastically chilling.

"Cop Car" has two kids at its center, but don't mistake this taut, wicked little thriller for a children's film.

With his sense of black humor and with a coldly calculating view of a world determined by intransigent laws of physics, Watts recalls the Coen brothers of "Blood Simple."

For the most part... this is what a b-movie should be: lean, mean, and filled with just enough longueurs to be evocative without slowing the pace.

Bacon is super-efficient and Watts maximizes his presence in Cop Car to a frighteningly claustrophobic and creepy factor, ridding every frame of extraneous detail or information.

An impossibly sparse indie thriller with a cast of five and not much more going on that its title suggests - which is precisely why it works.

Driven by gorgeous visuals and a constant sense of unease, Cop Car is refreshing and an effortlessly entertaining little thriller.

After all is said and done, Cop Car feels like half of a movie with no real ending.

As an envoy for beautifully lonesome wide open spaces and pure slow-burn suspense, it rattles along with undeniable know-how.