My theater experience certainly wasn't that exciting compared to others', but I enjoyed Love Lies Bleeding regardless.
I applaud the way the movie navigates its seedy criminal underbelly by almost avoiding it entirely. We're given enough information about Ed Harris and Dave Franco to establish context and the hierarchy of the power Harris wields. But the majority of the film is focused on Lou and Jackie's relationship. And even when the movie gets close to conventional crime love story tropes,…