How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Eight people drive into West Texas with a plan and a set of reasons that do not match. Goldhaber cuts it like a heist: who brought what, who is late, who might already have talked. Ariela Barer’s Xochitl is the one who keeps the argument and the timetable in the same sentence. The NEON trailer is the desert and the van. The film is less interested in the device than in whether the group still agrees when the sun is down.