‘Down the Arm of God’ Review: Caleb Landry Jones Finds That God’s House Isn’t a Home in a Stirring Social Drama
Variety | 01.09.2026 20:58
A harvester of disease in “Antiviral,” a white supremacist in “Get Out,” mass murderer Martin Bryant in “Nitram,” Vlad the Impaler himself in “Dracula”: Caleb Landry Jones has carved such a niche for himself playing men not to be touched with a ten-foot pole that “Down the Arm of God” immediately stands out for casting the actor as a man of regular, common decency. The takeaway, however, from this affectingly earnest social drama is that decency is neither common nor regular in an increasingly divided, individualist America — something that Jones’ character, small-town Texas priest Nick, learns to his growing anguish.
