Two FBI agents (Pullman and Ormond) fetch up in a remote town in the prairies – beautifully shot – to investigate a series of murders, enlisting along the way the help of three conflicting eye-witnesses.

There could be an Oscar nomination awaiting Gyllenhaal after this magnificently gritty and realistic, yet warm-hearted, performance as an ex-con trying to re-establish herself in the life of her six-year-old daughter.