![]() ![]() “Green Room” is Saulnier’s follow-up to his self-financed breakthrough “Blue Ruin,” a lean and riveting revenge tale also acted out by a novice in violence (Macon Blair, who pops here, too). ![]() The road movie that “Green Room” started out to be veers abruptly into a siege film as the head Neo-Nazi (Patrick Stewart, using his refined cordiality for menace) sends waves of “true believers” into the roadhouse to dispatch the witnesses. ![]() Things go south quickly, and the band is confronted with something far more hardcore than anything in their record collection. The trouble doesn’t come then, but after the show backstage, where the band returns to the green room to find a girl on the ground with a knife in her head. They provocatively open with the Dead Kennedys’ “Nazi Punks F- Off.” When they drive along a remote dirt road in their beat-up van, they’re still not intimidated by the swastikas and Confederate flags around them. They’ve had Neo-Nazis at their shows before. The band, a grimy group of punks (Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Joe Cole, and Callum Turner) from Virginia limping across the country, shrug. ![]()
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