Shimmer Lake (Oren Uziel, 2017)

So, some bumblers rob a bank in an American backwoods town and it all progressively goes to shit, version 98.
The only ways a story as flogged to death as this, just as with zombie epidemics, can begin to justify its retelling is with superior casting, decent dialogue and some other distinguishing virtue. Recently, with Hell or High Water, the last one of these separators was a powerful melange of social context and atmosphere. Here, the director goes for the very modish gimmick of telling the story backwards instead, and the result isn't as compelling, but it does nevertheless manage to pull out a real twist at the end, which didn't seem possible given the structure and stock characters.

5/10