Blood for Dust

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Blood for Dust

R

2024

1h 38m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

Action

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Reckless Ricky (Kit Harington) makes serious money dealing illegal weapons throughout the tri-state area and loves to flaunt it. Traveling salesman Cliff (Scoot McNairy), covers the same territory Ricky runs guns through. Desperate to find some financial relief for his struggling family, Cliff agrees to partner with Ricky, to commit cross-state drug and gun deliveries for a mid-level American cartel boss John (Josh Lucas). When a simple exchange turns into a bloodbath after Ricky kills everyone in a territory grab, the pair find themselves in a pressure cooker situation where unlikely drug dealer Cliff must fight as hard as he can to stay alive.

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Critics Consensus

A grim throwback with a terrific cast, Blood for Dust is a spare and familiar story told with sturdy execution.

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

Jan 6, 2025

3/5

Blackhurst doesn’t succeed in closing out his state of the nation diagnosis in a form any more substantial than old-school gunplay. But there are intuitive flashes of a cynical worldview in his crisp image-making.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

May 2, 2024

3.5/4

“Blood for Dust” never makes one false move as it leads its characters into temptation and then hell.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Apr 19, 2024

3.5/4

[W]hatever its shortcomings, including too much solemnity and not enough jokes, there's no denying that the film creates a powerful mood and sustains it.

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Steve Morrissey

Radio Times

Jan 14, 2025

3/5

While its elements are highly familiar, Blood for Dust looks and sounds great, and it has an immediacy, darkness and pitilessness that is all its own.

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Abe Friedtanzer

Cinema Daily US

Jul 24, 2024

B-

The setup is promising but the end product doesn’t fully deliver, offering a sobering, often gruesome tale of bad decisions from impossible choices and the consequences that inevitably follow.

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Ankit Ojha

Cinema Elite

Jul 9, 2024

3/5

Blackhurst’s gritty and grounded storytelling in “Blood for Dust” breathes new life into the plot device, and—with the brilliantly-acted contentious chemistry betwen McNairy and Harrington—succeeds perfectly.

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Robert P

@Superbad 3 days ago

Blood For Dust is a 3.5 star Movie!

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Sharang L

@Scribe187 May 10, 2026

Engaging crime drama with McNairy and Harrington in top form

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Steve C

@RT19610513 Dec 20, 2025

Some guy goes around and betrays everyone, man, women and children, as an end game. The worst kind of person.

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Aldis H

@plever Dec 10, 2025

75% gunfight, 15% "story," and 10%, I don't know, trying to make it mean something when it doesn't much.

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Andrew L

@Andyandali1 Jul 15, 2025

A lot of style over substance. Doesn’t quite reach the level. For instance, the final scene showing the photocopy of the drivers license, wasn’t a surprise. A little too moody, and not quite clever enough. A decent watch nonetheless

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Thomas G

@RT86399735 Jan 21, 2025

This was a good thriller with a few surprises...Especially since the.main character was a sales man lol....but the story was not good..the Picture quality was good (NOT Dohdoh Certified 💥

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Synopsis

Reckless Ricky (Kit Harington) makes serious money dealing illegal weapons throughout the tri-state area and loves to flaunt it. Traveling salesman Cliff (Scoot McNairy), covers the same territory Ricky runs guns through. Desperate to find some financial relief for his struggling family, Cliff agrees to partner with Ricky, to commit cross-state drug and gun deliveries for a mid-level American cartel boss John (Josh Lucas). When a simple exchange turns into a bloodbath after Ricky kills everyone in a territory grab, the pair find themselves in a pressure cooker situation where unlikely drug dealer Cliff must fight as hard as he can to stay alive.

Director: Rod Blackhurst
Producer: Noah Lang, Mark Fasano, Nathan Klingher, Bobby Campbell, Arun Kumar, Ari Novak, Bernard Kira
Screenwriter: David Ebeltoft
Distributor: The Avenue
Production Co: Gramercy Park Media, Good Wizard, Boxo Productions, Nickel City Pictures, Witchcraft Motion Picture Company, BondIt Media Capital, Studio 507, JaiD7 Pictures
Rating: R (Language|Drug Use|Some Sexual Material/Nudity|Suicide|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 19, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2024
Runtime: 1h 38m

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