GOD BLESS AMERICA

This cross between “Leon the Professional” and “Natural Born Killers” could have gone south very quickly but is saved by Tara Lynne Barr. It’s very good at sucking you into its point of view – you sit there nodding as the writer-director (Bobcat Goldthwait) tours you through the train wreck our culture has become. And you’re cheering his nebishy spree-killer protagonist. In retrospect, you think those folks probably didn’t deserve to die (waterboarding, yes), but in the moment you’re pulling the trigger along with Frank and Roxy.

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