If you haven't heard of "Small Engine Repair" before, don't worry — you're not alone. This dark thriller brought in just over $110,000 at the box office in 2021, meaning I was probably only one of a relatively small group of people who saw it. But I'm glad I did because it was one of my favorite movies of the year.
It also features one of my favorite Jon Bernthal performances. For a starring cast of just four people, it's fairly loaded thanks to the casting of Bernthal and Shea Whigham, but there's a reason for that. This twisted drama is actually based on the 2011 play of the same name, and in the film version Bernthal and writer/director John Pollono both reprise their starring roles from that production.
