Thornton is superb in Sling Blade, not only because he gives a stellar performance, but more importantly because every ...

A wondrous performance by Thornton welds the movie superbly ... Very moving without plunging into muddy sentimentalism, Sling Blade is a genuinely beautiful film full of a very rare ingredient ...

A local reporter comes to talk to him, and listens in horror about his life leading up to the crime. This is the short film that inspired the full-length "Sling Blade".