Flesh and Bone is film noir, complete with the characters and settings expected from the genre. It’s a thriller that doesn’t rely on action for its suspense. Drama — occasionally spilling over to melodrama — is the backbone. The story isn’t overplotted; the only real twist is easily guessed, and, while the entire script turns on one massive coincidence, that event is so expertly buried within the context of a gripping tale that it doesn’t seem so implausible when it happens. Chock it up to fate’s bitterly ironic sense of humor. — James Berardinelli