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With Braves starter Bryce Elder painting the corners of the strike zone, their recently streaking offense went cold.

Bryce Kass’ incident-packed screenplay keeps Minahan busy, but the twinned narratives and their snap-into-place dangers ultimately overwhelm the unease that make the first half of “On Swift Horses” so palpably jangly inside all the period production design and Luc Montpellier’s crisp cinematography.

The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, for instance, conducts a violin concerto by Bryce Dessner of the Nationals next week with the L.A.

Phillies star Bryce Harper, remarkably, has done it twice.