A Prayer Before Dawn

  • 2017


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Average Rating 3.8/5
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3.0
Its a spare, brutal, well crafted prison drama, anchored by an at turns wildly aggressive and hauntingly vulnerable lead performance by Green Rooms Jo .. Av Club
3.8
This movie is a remarkable feat that requires a strong stomach to sit through. Rogerebert
3.0
There is an underlying narrative structure to whole bloody affair. Indie Wire
5.0
Competition is stiff for the title of cinemas most violently harrowing prison drama, and tougher still for the all time most pummeling boxing movie. Variety
4.0
Light on dialogue and heavy on expression both physical and emotive, he keeps you watching even if what youre seeing makes you want to hide your eyes .. Time Out
4.0
This is visceral, often unwatchably brutal stuff: a moment by moment depiction of an unspeakable ordeal. The Guardian
4.0
Yet many of the non professional Thai actors, all ex prisoners and real life boxing champions, bring detail and lived experience to their performances .. The Guardian
3.0
No one would accuse it of breaking new ground, or finding fascinating new paths across its well worn prison yard.But Sauvaires drama is lean and trim .. The Guardian
3.1
Sauvaire attempts to honor and transcend these genres more or less simultaneously.
4.5
If A Prayer Before Dawn straddles the genres violent prison drama, boxing (of the Muay Thai variety) memoir and drug biography it doesnt easily sit in .. Screen Daily
5.0
If A Prayer Before Dawn straddles the genres violent prison drama, boxing (of the Muay Thai variety) memoir and drug biography it doesnt easily sit in .. Screen Daily
4.0
Once the audience adjusts to its rhythms, it exerts a powerful fascination. Vulture
3.0
The definition of an immersive experience, A Prayer Before Dawn is a survival story whittled to sweat and sinews. The New York Times
4.0
Cole... plays Moore with a clamped down, concentrated ferocity: the character is no roguish anti hero, but a frantic knot of sinew, to whom we dont re .. Telegraph
4.0
Although gruesome and grueling, its an immersive, deeply powerful and darkly inspiring tale.
5.0
What makes this truly special is the compassion and wisdom on display.
4.5
A Prayer Before Dawn 9 10 PLOT: Billy Moore (Joe Cole) a young, meth addict boxer from the UK, is arrested in Thailand and sentenced to three years in .. JoBlo
4.0
Its a great performance in a film thats likely to become a classic of its kind. Village Voice
3.1
Its not a reinvention of the genre, but it is a fairly engrossing variation on a theme. Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
10 1 9 / 10 Movies do not get more ferocious than A Prayer Before Dawn. Its an adaptation of Billy Moores book, which detailed his time behind bars in .. Blu Ray
4.0
As first nights in Thai prisons go, Billy Moores is right up there.The young Liverpudlian, played in this blistering boxing drama by Joe Cole, is give .. The Times
4.0
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3.5
Yet neither Sauvaire nor his star are interested in boiling this cellblock survivalist tale down to a sociology lesson or an impressionistic mix of be .. Rolling Stone
4.0
And a sharp final cameo from the real Moore adds a nice touch.This is immersive filmmaking, throwing the camera right into the fray and letting us fee .. Shadows On The Wall
4.0
Sauvaire doesnt investigate these emotional elements fully, which is why A Prayer Before Dawn fails to be fully engaging in its latter half. Film Journal
4.0
Part Rocky, part Midnight Express, and part Beau Travail, this adaptation of Billy Moores best selling memoir about his three years in some of Thailan .. Smh
4.0
Its a grim and searing assault on the senses that finds hope in one mans capacity to survive and even thrive in truly nightmarish conditions. Flim List
3.5
Moores story deserves a better big screen treatment than what director Jean Stephane Sauvaire has served up. Film Inquiry
2.5
A Prayer Before Dawn is a savagely transgressive work, giving all who buy a ticket a front row seat for life on the inside, and just how cheap it beco .. Birth Movies Death
4.0
Cole has got one of those faces thats hard to pin down, and for this testing role hes yanked every which way. Standard
2.0
Its that sense of synchronicity between star and filmmaker that gives the film its impact. Consequence Of Sound
4.0
Joe Cole carries every frame brilliantly with a finely executed feral brute force.And if Oliver Stone had sculpted a prison Platoon, it would be fair .. Hey U Guys
4.0
Its anything but a pretty sight.The fights in the ring are gruelling enough, but the real challenge for the viewer is when the film details the violen .. Film Ink
2.5
Typically, part of the point is to make the viewer feel trapped along with the characters: but is this a recipe for entertainment The Age
4.0
A brutal yet poetic look into the violent world of a Thai prison that has you occasionally peaking through your fingers. Lw Lies
4.0
The viewer feels he is there with the cellmates and Hell mates, a tabula rasa innocent abroad flung in among the tattooed and indigenous. Ft
4.0
Thats not meant to insinuate you need to be hard to enjoy it but this is as brutal as boxing or prison films get, so steel yourself. The Sun
3.5
This is a brutal, bloody film that offers no apologies, but its impact is undeniable. Punch Drunk Critics
2.0
Though the editing is itchy, you get the point that youre better off going straight all your life. Shockya
2.0
Without Coles visceral commitment, this movies version of Moore would lack any emotional tractiona potential disaster, since hes the sole substantial .. Film Comment
4.0
In whats sure to be every tourists worst nightmare, A Prayer Before Dawn follows Billy Moore as hes arrested on drug charges and sent to a notorious T .. One Room With A View
4.0
A Prayer Before Dawn RELEASE DATE: August 10 DIRECTOR: Jean Stephane Sauvaire CAST: Joe Cole, Vithaya Pansringarm, Panya Yimmumphai This punishing but .. Flavor Wire
4.0
Billy Moore knows how it feels, and by the end of A Prayer Before Dawn you might think you have a pretty good idea as well. The Skinny
2.5
Sauvaires effort to make a prison boxing equivalent of Beau Travail from these routine elements is admirable in theory, but it really needed Denis Lav .. Film Avclub
2.5
That final bout is a flurry of limbs that crescendos with borderline unbearable tension, beginning as a grave attempt to survive and ending as a catha .. The Daily Beast
4.5
Sauvaire doesnt investigate these emotional elements fully, which is why A Prayer Before Dawn fails to be fully engaging in its latter half. Film Journal International ..
5.0
Its an imposing proposition, and though for some viewers the scrappy storytelling will work against it, judged overall it really is a compelling journ .. Bfi
3.0
You may well feel like youve done a few rounds in the ring with a Thai boxing inmate yourself when you reach the end, but ride it out. The National
3.0
The lack of any real exposition allows for us to focus exclusively on Moore assimilating into the fabric of Thailands Bang Kwang Central Prison, where .. Ion Cinema
3.5
A Prayer Before Dawn is a demon infested, feverish nightmare of a martial arts/survival film that makes Rocky look exceedingly lightweight. Theepoch Times
3.5
Prayer is a brutal and uncompromising dramatisation of prison life and the social disconnect found between men of different cultures.It is commendable .. Impulse Gamer
3.0
It could easily become pure depression porn, wallowing as one thing after another crushes the protagonist into the floor. But even as bleak as things ..
5.0
Yet you cant take your eyes off the screen because the visuals are so amazing. Dwight Brown Ink
4.5
A Prayer Before Dawn is remarkable in its brutalist mode, in sketching the grainy lives of these jailbirds...to see how far the body, and in effect th .. Bangkok Post
4.5
This gradual disciplining of Moore makes for a knockout film. Anton Bitel Projected Figures
4.5
Any fans of this type of violent, dark drama exploring the depths of depravity and desperation will find something effective here, and it comes recomm ..
4.0
Sauvaire follows up impressive feature debut Johnny Mad Dog with an uncompromisingly brutal cinematic experience, coarse and unwavering in its depicti .. The National
4.0
An arresting, if too vacantly handled biographic parable on the karma of ignorance and the value of tolerance, lead by an unreal central performance. FrewFilm
4.0
A Prayer Before Dawn will leave you pulsating long after youve left the cinema. Fopp.com
4.5
Good cinema stays with you until you get to your car. Great cinema stays with you for several days. Memorable cinema, as in the case of A Prayer Befor .. Myrtle Beach Online



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