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The School-Shooting Movie That Stunned the Venice Film Festival Into Silence

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Venice Film Festival

“Run Hide Fight,” Kyle Rankin’s film about a school shooting, is at once high-drama action and poignant. It left this writer in a state of shock.

VENICE—It took two full hours to stop thinking about Kyle Rankin’s 109-minute masterful mindfuck called Run Hide Fight, named after the mantra kids are taught to remember in order to survive school shootings in America. 

But the film is surprisingly not really about school shootings.

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