Movie Review: The Emotional Wallop of 'The Return'

It was just fitting that this movie was Russian since it played out like a Dostoevsky novel, this time though, the protagonists are two brothers, their mother and a father they haven't seen in ages.  You know from the first shot that something tragic and dreadful is going to happen yet you don't know what it possibly could.  The boys are smart and headstrong, the wife is no pushover.  But when the Dad appears, you can sense a bit of discomfort since the Dad is eerily firm so I thought some kind of thrashing was going to happen somewhere in the movie.  It never came.  You'd just have to watch the movie to find out who got hurt and try to find a reason why.