In the opening scene of the low-boil crime thriller “Blood on Her Name,” a woman named Leigh Tiller (Bethany Anne Lind) is standing in a pool of blood in a darkened auto garage, with a corpse at her feet. Lind gives an excellent performance as Leigh, who’s instantly sympathetic even when the audience doesn’t know anything about her. Gradually, we meet her son, a teenager who’s already on criminal probation; and we meet her dad, Richard (Will Patton), who introduced her to a life of violence. These details gradually change the meaning of the movie’s startling opening image. “Blood on Her Name” runs out of juicy “So now what’s” by its final stretch.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 27, 2020 17:08 UTC