Film: Lawless lacks bottle to hit home

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**Lawless**

**Directed by John Hillcoat**

**Nationwide, cert 16**

**Rating: 2/5**

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**Samsara**

**Directed by Ron Fricke**

**Selected cinemas, cert 12A**

**Rating: 5/5**

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Awash with violence and dripping with period atmosphere, the Depression-era drama **Lawless** tells the avowedly real-life story of three mountain-dwelling brothers known as the Bondurants (played by Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf and Jason Clarke) who take up arms to protect their bootleg moonshine business from corrupt cops ...