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A funny mean streak runs through the promising coming-of-age thriller “Don’t Tell a Soul,” a horror story about two brothers whose abusive relationship is inevitably tested after they steal some money and trap a witness to their crime in a well. That mean streak is, as you might imagine, the emotional glue that keeps shy Joey (Jack Dylan Grazer) stuck to his vicious brother Matt (Fionn Whitehead), who pressures Joey into sneaking into an elderly neighbor’s home (while it’s being fumigated), and stealing $10,000 from a cookie tin.
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What you might not expect from “Don’t Tell a Soul” is a giddily cynical streak of black humor that also defines Joey’s unusual relationship with Dave Hamby (Rainn Wilson), the security guard who falls down a forest well after he stumbles upon Matt and Joey’s crime. That sort of edgy, sorta grim sense of humor ultimately defines what works and what doesn’t in writer/director Alex McAulay’s debut, an ambitious black come