Franklin seizes the opportunity to make a film that tightly binds up any political concerns it may have into the plot.

Clark Franklin's One False Move brings a shotgun to a knife fight, and the results aren't pretty.

Franklin's convincing portrait of life on both sides of the color line isn't quite like anything I've come across before, making One False Move one very assured directorial move. We need more filmmakers like him.

Director Cark Franklin... delivers richly-drawn characters and complex relationships under the lean, gritty crime thriller.