The actor-writer reteams with his 'To the Night' director Peter Brunner for a moving if slightly schematic story of a Texas priest battling small-town prejudice to help the unhoused.
By Guy Lodge
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Courtesy of Kinology A harvester of disease in “Antiviral,” a white supremacist in “Get Out,” mass murderer Martin Bryant in “Nitram,” Vlad the Impaler himself in “Dracula”: Caleb Landry Jones has carved such a niche for himself playing men not to be touched with a ten-foot pole that “Down the Arm of God” immediately stands out for casting the actor as a man of regular, common decency. The takeaway, however, from this affectingly earnest social drama is that decency is neither common nor regular in an increasingly divided, individualist America — something that Jones’ character, small-town Texas priest Nick, learns to his growing anguish.
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