WE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE American Independents

Coming out swinging with a style-infused debut, brothers and co-directors Zeke and Simon Hawkins serve up a breathless Texas neo-noir with deliciously dark shades of hardboiled novelist Jim Thompson. As their summer comes to an end, BJ (Logan Huffman) convinces his best friend Bobby (Jeremy Allen White) and girlfriend Sue (Mackenzie Davis) to indulge in one last night on the town. The three burn through BJ’s cash in no time, but it turns out to have been stolen from Giff (Mark Pellegrino), BJ’s boss, and he wants it back. To set the record straight, he forces the young characters to plan a heist against a nefarious gangster. But nothing goes straight in this crooked tale of deception and violence, stealthily shot in grainy widescreen, and heightened by an atmospheric, guitar-plucked score.