Frank Ochieng
Writer-director Riley Stearns masterfully concocts the sinister dramedy Faults that registers with a bizarre blend of terror and off-the-cuff cheekiness. Stearnss caustic yet cockeyed vision into the exploration of cults and mind-control methods is gloriously wacky and makes for one of the most unique psychological dramas to register with forthright nerve within recent years. The peculiar appeal found in Faults rests on the beleaguered shoulders of the films desperate and dysfunctional lead protagonist Ansel Roth (played with harried brilliance by Leland Orser), a one-time notable authority on cult activities. However, in the aftermath of some success comes the lean times when this so-called shifty deprogramming expert, now in the dumps fin...