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Unsurprisingly, the dinner table scenes are taut and dynamic.

That’s all thanks to Nick Emerson, whose work helps the film’s tone bounce between taut thriller and shocking drama as he examines the quickly shifting allegiances that dictate the future of modern religion.

Vampire Weekend offered a taut “Scarlet Begonias” and Maren Morris a stirring “They Love Each Other.”

Like a taut earthquake fault that too often unbelts itself and cuts loose with repellent force, a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California.

The film is intrinsically an Indian story about violence against women, set as a taut thriller.