The 30th Atlantic Film Festival Some (very late) thoughts from my screening of Kevin Asch’s HOLY ROLLERS at the 30th Atlantic Film Festival: Based on a true story, HOLY ROLLERS follows Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a Hasidic man who, in the 90s, got himself involved in an enormous drug trafficking ring. Interesting premise, no? It is, indeed, an interesting premise. Sadly, the “interesting” ends at the premise; what follows is one of the most conventional crime stories you’ve ever seen. Perhaps that’s the problem with most real-life stories; they just aren’t as colourful as films. But this just treads on
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