Bring Them Down review: Barry Keoghan spirals into catastrophe in this stark drama

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Bring Them Down’s spiral into catastrophic violence begins with a broken bridge – two broken bridges, in fact. Yet in Christopher Andrews’s stark, haunted debut – anchored by two soulfully frayed performances by Abbott and Keoghan – violence becomes the only language left to speak when shame, resentment, and desperation have stripped the words right out of these people’s mouths. Soulfully frayed: Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott in ‘Bring Them Down’ Keoghan convincingly plays a decade or so younger with a handful of well-placed tics – in the uncertain way he clenches his reddened knuckles and mumbles his lines into the collar of his jacket. He plays Jack as a kid who’s doing a very bad job of convincing everyone he’s an adult, and who withers into dust the second real consequences come careening around the corner.