Loves Her Gun

"Loves Her Gun" is one of the most soothing examinations of fear you're ever likely to see.

Marslett has a real feeling for this place and these people ...

Arrives at a destination that may strike some as too pat, but getting there is nonetheless consistently interesting.

Sluggish storytelling and heavy-handed moralizing.

Though the film is generally sedate for its first hour-plus, small moments of violence sporadically keep us on our toes just as Allie is.

Geoff Marslett's Loves Her Gun studies the fine line between rational and irrational fear, as well as what it means to feel safe.

This is Marslett's first live-action film (his SXSW 2010 favorite, Mars, was animated), and it's a promising start.

...it takes over an hour to get around to what is most interesting about the plot: Allie's initiation into gun culture, and her psychological response to the power that comes from pulling a trigger.