“Union Bridge” (*1/2 out of four) was a moribund story of a young man (Scott Friend) who tires of life in the big city and returns home to his small town where he discovers various dark truths about his family and the sinister undercurrents of his hometown underneath its deceptive facade. Despite Sebastian Slater’s handsome cinematography, it’s stillborn and forgettable. Meaningless arty touches and slow-motion add nothing at all. David Lynch told virtually the same story far more skillfully and scarily in both “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” more than 30 years ago.

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