The Green Knight reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025
- Dev Patel gives a highly nuanced performance as the central character in David Lowery’s adaptation of the Arthurian classic. A breathtakingly beautiful portrayal of a knight’s inner conflict on his quest for valour, and a masterclass in world building, this film is best enjoyed on a big screen. Daniel Hart’s score creates cinematic poetry, pitched perfectly between Breaking Dawn Part 2 and the Last Temptation of Christ. Trust us, it works.
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The last sequence of this movie was excellent and haunting. Easily one of my favorite movies of the year
woah waoh sweet child of mine... No-one in this comment section wants to know about the last scene!!!
@@Cameronwatt he didn't even say anything about it as far as spoilers you goober.
@@tylerblair318 exactly 😂 plus this movie has been out in cinemas and on digital for a while now. I saw it two months ago. If you’re that worried about spoilers (which even if I told you exactly what happens in this movie, you wouldn’t believe it cause it’s that crazy), you would have seen it by now one way or the other.
@@thegreyinitiate3680 only in the US! it’s only just come out this week in the UK, hence Mark’s review now.
Too bad it’s a chore to get through until said last sequence haha
I just watched it last night. I only wished I’d seen it at the cinema. It’s exquisite. I felt like I was walking through the moors and breathing in the rich mossy green of the forest.
This and The Lighthouse have made me so excited about the future of cinema. Two young, brilliant directors making outstanding films.
Those two plus Chazelle, Aster and Ducournau will take care of Cinema
Hey - I just came across your comment. I absolutely loved those two films. Have you any other suggestions? The Hunt for the Wilderpeoplet has great cinematography like TGK.
I gotta praise a film that has the guts to end with a 15 minute montage. This was really good.
Reminded me strongly of La la Land which is not something I expect when going into it. 😅
reminds me of Last Temptation of Christ
It's a breathtaking film. The best part is the cinematography. I was transported and immersed into a completely different world. Worth every penny!
Cinematography was stunning but also the things being filmed were stunning too (Art, Production Design, Costume, Locations, etc)
@@RichardS2777 The music, you ought to talk about the music and sound track!
@@mireillelebeau2513 Beautiful too!
Fantastic looking…. Boring…. Movie
WISH I had hunted this down on the big screen. Just now seen it, and was utterly blown away. It's one of those "just go with the flow" kind of films, and I admit the opening 15 or so minutes dragged for me. I needed to settle into the correct mindset to appreciate it - but once there found myself captivated. Again and again I caught myself gasping in awe at the cinematography. There are shots in this film that I know to be incredibly hard to achieve with such levels of finesse and beauty. The soundtrack too is magnificent, and Dev Patel can do no wrong. What a performance. What a film. Criminal that it didn't see a wider release. I urge anyone who loves cinema to seek this out and support it.
saw the Green Knight when it came out in the US, and I looked forward to Mark's review because I had a feeling he would absolutely love it! So glad to hear that that's the case. One of my favorite movies I've seen in a long time
Five points of Kighthood. That's how the story goes. But you're not wrong
Struggled with it frequently but man oh man did it deliver in its final moments. Regardless on whether or not it cracks into my top of the year, it certainly had an ending like no other.
I watched this with my dad giving him no context of the movie. It was like watching him have a transcendental experience.
I know how he feels, few movies made me feel this way. Stunning
In this and _A Ghost Story_ there are moments which I find kind-of meditative. They're slow-paced, but so profound, or beautiful, or hypnotic, that they hold my attention.
Been waiting for Mark’s review. Was not disappointed at all.
I thought it was a masterpiece.. one of my favorite films of the last few years.
An absolute cinematic breath of fresh air. And it totally tickled my folklore-loving fancy.
I remember the tale from reading it as a young boy, this film takes it deeper into the forest, the rustling of the wind through the leaves, the smell of damp wood, the burbling of brooks and streams and the cast are fantastic especially the fox!
What i thought was exceptional about it, was the mystifying sense that you are looking at a realistic version of the original story. I might have a little bit of trouble with the pace but I think it was charged with the existential dread of Lowery's best that IMO is Ghost Story and an excellent revision of everything that make this type of story work, even without showcases of CGI prowess.
Not many movies can transport the viewer like the way the green knight did. It beautiful and haunting movie and I think Dev Patel was incredible, we need more Asian actors. It is proper shame movies like these are not getting made more.
I agree that Dev Patel was fantastic in this, and I would also enjoy more Asian actors in English cinema. But Dev is a *British* actor. I assume you wouldn't call Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor "African" actors?
@@cheesecake8527 Dev Patel is Indian.
@@cheesecake8527 Forgive me i didnt mean to take away his british-ness. I meant it as a British asian myself, its refreshing to see someone on screen, on big films with similar ethnicity to me. I can say it makes india/pakistani/Bangladeshi folk very proud to have artists who shares a similar cultural roots.
@@abc-qv1pe He’s British. His parents are from Kenya, but of Indian heritage.
@@cheesecake8527 Agree 100% -I tire of the people talking about lack of inclusion and then immediately seeking to divide us by heritage. It’s an insidious political agenda.
I really wish I'd got even a tenth of Mark's enthusiasm for this. I can see it's a very visually interesting film, but it left me absolutely cold, and despite persisting into the second half, eventually gave up on it.
It just didn’t draw you into the character. The viewer is left feeling very much like they’re watching a film, rather than actively participating. It felt like a pretentious art house film, which a shame as it was stunning
If your deadset on watching it at home.
Only watch it on a TV if you have a reasonably high quality HDR set and then watch it in the dark or at night.
There are many scenes that are very dark (from a lighting perspective) and it will be difficult to see what's going on.
Most digital projections are only 2k Rez these days. I guess no home audio setup can truly reach cinema level though.
I saw it in a cinema in Seoul and could hardly see what was going on in the dark scenes. Liked the movie a lot. The same scenes I saw on RUclips were much brighter
It just came out in the UK and Ireland and my understanding is they have brightened it a lot! Wasn't a problem for me. Edit: this was in cinema.
had this problem but in an actual cinema - the Amazon Prime logo came up at the beginning so I do wonder if we were just watching a streamed version
I didn't understand this film at all. Looked nice but I had no clue what was happening. Is that just me?
I live in an isolated city in the middle of the UK, there was absolutely no way I would be able to watch this in cinema which has devastated me, but regardless I absolutely loved this film. Splendid
The ending resonated with me in ways I didn't expect. It was Poignant and Profoundly Beautiful!
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Same. It makes me want to go on some sort of dangerous quest.
I wish I could have seen it at the cinema. This is just such a beautiful told classic saga/fairy tale!
I did enjoy it, but I felt the story felt a bit episodic in a way. We have a bunch of segments that I'm not sure really fit well together. Dev was fantastic tho
For me it had precisely the narrative structure of a dream and that was its unnerving beauty-have to agree about Patel though
Makes me wish Mark would revive his top 10 best and worst lists.
He still does them. He recently done his best and worst of the year so far.
@@Thomas15 Really? Are they on a different channel? I haven't seen one anywhere since he ended Kermode Uncut
@Thomas Carmichael
He ended Kermode Uncut and started his own podcast called _Kermode On Film._ There’s been over 160 episodes so far.
Dev Patel has such a good track record.
Really is a piece of work. It looks amazing, the atmosphere is wonderful, the performances are top class and the story itself is taut and incredibly satisfying. A perfectly formed mini-epic character study.
This was a movie that deserves multiple watches. So many layers of storytelling, on later viewings, as you peel away different bits, and put together the pieces, to get a slightly different viewing experience. A truly fantastic piece of cinema, beautifully filmed, fantastically acted, and masterfully directed.
I thought this film was genuinely awful. It was boring, dark, sloooooow in the extreme, and raised no interesting questions or ideas. Mark talked about "audacious" moments - I can't think of a single one!
yep, dull as F
This was great but watch it at the cinema not on Prime.
Seen No Sudden Move - decent
Seen No Time To Die - Pretty good
Seen Venom 2 - Awful
Now we wait Dune which I’m hoping will be epic.
I wanted to love it as it was on my radar as one my most anticipated movies of the year after Dune. It started off well and I enjoyed everything up to and including the appearance of the Green knight. Then when Dev Patel's Gwain sets off on his quest it began to really falter for me as a pretentious and boring piece of film-making. I wasn't expecting an action fantasy on the scale of Lord of the rings but I was expecting something cérébral like Pans Labyrinth or esoteric like Boorman's Excalibur .No one can argue the film isn't beautifully to look at and it features some interesting production design ; clever camerawork and good use of the locations. I also liked the costume design . I found the narrative really difficult to get invested in and somehow towards the end I finished up hating the whole thing and felt that I had wasted two hours of my life watching it . Perhaps I was just in the wrong frame of mind for it and a subsequent viewing it might be better but I doubt it. I found it disappointing . Love the show and tune in every week !!!!!
Couldn’t agree more.
Exactly my thoughts
This was my reaction, too.
I'm thrilled to see such a review - because it's absolutely spot on. I saw The Green Knight for the second time in the cinema earlier this week and it is everything Mark says here: visually stunning, mystical and haunting, emotionally complex and challenging. It IS a remarkable film and my favourite for a long time. This is a special film and is great testament to the director, to all the actors and everyone else who conceived and designed all its intricacies. See it!
There is a discussion to be made about Amazons distribution strategy which I think is beyond terrible.
Starting with The Small Axe series and the Underground Railroad series that they just dropped.
Has there been any promotions for this movie from them?
I feel like this movie asks the question "how much should your imagination fill in", in a cinematic experience? Because if you are not willing to this movie is a mess, whereas if you are attuned to this, it is a tool to help you arrive at the ending you wanted. It's just so competent in every way except as an actual self-contained vehicle, or how to put it. It just doesn't work as a story (or adaptation), unless you are there to let it, allow it to happen. I am truly of several minds in how I feel about that. :p
The Other Half and I have just seen this - via Amazon, because we don't have a Curzon anywhere near that we know and are also still semi-shielding because of COVID, due to health conditions.
I would absolutely love to have seen it on a big screen - we shut the blinds and at least watched it on a decent screen, in the dark. But I cannot agree enough with Mark's comments - it is an incredible film. And we will certainly watch it again.
I loved this film mostly for all the reasons Mark stated (and good for him for wearing a Blade Runner t-shirt). The voice of the Green Knight had me wracking my brains and, lo and behold, it was Ralph Inerson. This guy must be a trillionaire by now for his voice work alone.
i feel like people went in expecting something like lord of the rings but got a macbeth sort of movie, it's a good movie, some strangeness but that's the story, and it's a great tale with a great morale and lesson, i feel the changes at the end from the original kind of harm that moral a bit but it's still good
There's fee things quite as wonderful as hearing Mark gush his ass off.
I was looking forward to seeing this in the cinema but it seems it is not on anywhere near me, so forced to watch on Amazon :/
So glad I got to see this in a theater. I don’t know if I would’ve stuck with it if I’d had the ability to pause and rewind and look things up on Wikipedia. It really rewards a patient viewer. This movie stuck with me for weeks after I watched it.
Completely agree, it's fantastic. Seeing on the big screen was fantastic, as soon as the film opened I felt like I was home, exactly what a film should be
Gotta say, I wanted to like it but found it slow and dull. Plus, when Dev Patel’s character saw that the Green Knight could reattach his head, why didn’t he just bail out?
This was visually very impressive, but I found there were so many different intriguing ideas and motifs that I was frustrated at the ambiguous conclusion. I think I also found Gawain's "failure hero" behaviour a bit wearing; he seems to spend the entire film making actively bad decisions or being dragged along by events up till the conclusion, then the film ends. Most "coming of age" stories (a motif which this obviously draws on) will show the protagonist doing something with their newfound maturity, understanding etc., not simply *not* doing something.
My view of the film may have been coloured by watching it in a room full of people who paid zero attention to the cinema's requests for people to wear facemasks.
Havent seen it. But would you say to those that said it was " extremely boring"?
This was one of my most anticipated movies and I was not disapointed. Truly fantastic movie. Love how the movie creates the foreboding atmosphere with its score and use of angles. Dev patel was perfect as Gawain. To me its one of the most faithful adaptations of the legend
“Why greatness? Is goodness not enough?”
The movie does take certain creative liberties with the original source. If someone is aware of the story, they may come out disappointed. The movie however is still an effective story of morality.
I thought some of the changes made the movie better. E.g. it’s way more dramatically compelling that Gawain isn’t a knight yet at the beginning
@@SidV101 It seems to be one of the those movies that although you’re disappointed with the changes, you can’t think why it’s bad. The more you think about the changes themselves and how they relate to the morality of the narrative, it improves.
@@callumager537 I loved the changes lol
Halfway through, I found myself very dissapointed. By the end I loved it.
The music is spectacular in the movie
Looked great but it was muddled and didn't amount to much in the end. Kinda pretentious too. I get what it's based on but the makers really altered and added to it in ways that seem random. Cool to look at, for sure.
Traditional story, the manuscript found in the library of Henry Savile of Yorkshire. It draws on early English, Celtic and French chivalric traditions, Gawain travels across England/Britain, probably Wales the English Midlands to Wirral (it is believed!) atmospheric story, and yes the King kisses the Knight at the end!
I have to say this film was not what I was expecting. About 30 minutes in it had won me over, and I just let it carry me along. Beautifully shot, and the ending was wonderful.
I think seeing it in HDR on a 55 inch OLED quite rivaled going to the cinema. The image had a decent size and was crisp and popping much more than at the cinema. In my view something at the scale of Dune would only truly warrant a trip to the cinema this year if you have a similar setup.
I saw Green Knight in the theater over a month ago. I like the film overall but the emphasis is certainly on the atmosphere and uncanny elements. Characterization is weak and the story meanders too much. It looks great and has some individually memorable set pieces (which I won't spoil here) but it doesn't totally gel.
It's an adaptation of a middle english alliterative romance my guy, of course it 'meanders'. That's literally the entire premise of the genre.
@@ARCHBABE That doesn't make it a good film. Other Arthurian adaptations like Excalibur have a strong plot thread. The episodic nature of The Green Knight makes it feel rather pointless.
@alan kinsella and @FormerHumanX: Chivalry is one part, yes, but medieval romance narrative theory since Vinaver on Malory has held that entrelacement, or 'interlacing', is a crucial component of medieval romance. The point is that the genre doesn't, unlike 20th century narrative conventions that find traditional expression in the bourgeois novel and popular film, aim for plots that are unified toward a single dramatic arc of problem- complication-closure. The film disrupts the convention by interweaving and nesting and, yes, meandering, just like the 13th and 14th century epic and romance sources (Guillaume de Lorris, Malory, Chrétien de Troyes, Pearl Poet, Langland, Chaucer, even later Spenser, etc. etc. etc.). My point is that you're coming to this film expecting something it -- and its source -- is not interested in giving to you, which is as much a fault with the critic as with the criticised.
This was only shown for a very short time in cinemas over here where i live. So sad i missed it.
This was my most anticipated film of the year. Did not disappoint. Never watched any trailers so went in blind!
Beautiful film. But the middle act was very dull and slow. I love dark fantasy (e.g. Pan’s Labyrinth) and I appreciate hard-to-get-into psychedelic/trippy fantasies (e.g. Mandy) and I love slow paced meditative existential films (e.g. Blade Runner 2049) BUT I felt pretty underwhelmed by this one.
Great visuals, performances, some great set-pieces, but the pacing was a little self-indulgent. This would have made a really strong 1hr episode or maybe at a push a 90min movie.
If you’re going to watch it I’d suggest not wasting it on a weekend (as I did, it was a disappointing Saturday night), but maybe choose a weekday and prepare yourself for a very slooow burn that never burns all that bright, however is beautiful and, at least, quite unique and stylised.
I felt pretty much the same way about it. As beautiful as the film was, it wasn't enough to carry a story with so few beats for so long. I felt that it needed a bit more between the "episodes" to pull it all together. It's a hard balance though, especially in a film that focuses on one character where the sense of time and distance is so integral to it.
That said, I am going to watch it again to see if there's more that I didn't pick up on the first time, but yeah, I did come away a bit disappointed the first time round.
No mention of "Sword of the Valiant?"
I watched it at home yesterday but am very tempted to go see it again in the cinema. The photography was absolutely stunning, I'd love to see that on the big screen.
Well, this is the first site that seems to have consistent praise for The Green Knight. I dug it, as well. I was more curious on how people viewed this than really any other film I've seen in a long time, and I kept running into the same dreck everywhere, where people wanted it to be fast and furious instead of what it is, which is slow and curious. This movie really dislodged me and lingered with me. I started off caught somewhere between bewildered and perplexed and wound up pretty enchanted. It really gave me some excitement that something like this could be made and be accessible. Kermode and I are wearing the same lenses, here and walking in the same aether.
I loved it! I love fantasy, but so few fantasy films dare to be this weird and wonderful.
Just saw the Green Knight today. This film is phenomenal, it is cinema. It must be seen in theater. Best film of the year for sure.
I still remember how I felt coming out of the cinema after I saw 'A Ghost Story' and despite its brilliance I didn't get quite the same experience with this film but maybe because I streamed it. I will have to see this again at the cinema.
I wondered what happened to Finchy from 'The Office'.
Loved it! Got Blade Runner 2049 vibes off of it. Looked beautiful, well acted and a great interpretation of my favourite Arthurian Myth.
I thought the same while watching it, it reminds me a lot to BR2049, certainly they share some similarities. Both are breathtakingly gorgeous and deeply immersive
@@carlospadinmartinez I couldnt agree more!both immersive stories, the journey both main characters in the movies are gorgeously filmed and I only like this movie of David Lowery, although he got lots of projects done over the years!
Stunning movie. It's one of those weird gems that truly takes you into another world, time and place. Just sucks you right in and doesnt let go. It is so complete in its design that you are truly immersed, and you quickly realise how stale 99.9% of other movies are by comparison. Sound design, acting, worldbuilding, attention to detail, cinematography, direction *chef kiss. Some say it's too long, I say it's not long enough. would give my left nut for a studio to fire a hundred million dollars at Lowery and let him make a medieval fantasy series with complete artistic freedom.
It's such a shame that Odeon cinemas don't see to have put this in their theatres at all. I did watch it on Prime this morning instead, but it feels like a missed opportunity not to see it on the big screen
I thought it was a dreary pile of impenetrable nonsense. Dev Patel is superb as a Knight though.
It's a solution to people who suffer from insomnia, sent me to sleep twice!
I'd heard so many people say it was "beautiful but boring" and the the only thing I disagree with is that I didn't think it was beautiful. Too many scenes that were so dark you couldn't see much, a few were pretty but mostly just light coming in through windows.
I normally like art cinema but this was just... pointless? Some great art cinema is weird but being weird doesn't automatically make art cinema great.
You could barely hear the woman mumbling about green. It was pretty dire and I didn’t pay to see it in the cinema either, would have felt short changed otherwise
I really wanted to watch this in cinema, but it only had a limited run of like 1-2 weeks here. :(
It's shame that it has zero Oscar nomination
I couldnt agree any more with Kermode here, it is a cinematic experience, with so substantial depth, beautiful poetic storytelling, and you really do feel the change in seasons, and there is so much mystery and ambiguity, its brilliant...Never expected this kind of film in todays cliimate..Very good piece
Seen it twice and I can’t stop humming the music and annoying my friends talking about how much I love it 😆 also I work at a cinema and was so happy I managed to get a poster for it 😍
It took that film to get me back in a cinema - first time in a year and a half.
Was it worth it? It does look interesting
@@MidLoafCrisis It was absolutely worth seeing on a giant screen. But then I say that as someone who sat in the screening room with his friend and just one other person, 10 or 12 feet away. And I didn’t get sick.
What kind of release did this actually have? I am an Unlimited Cineworld member and monitor what is shown at my local Cineworld quite closely. I appear to have missed this film by 6 weeks or more!
Where is the Dune review???
Movie of the year. Great to see a quintessential British folktale having new life breathed into it. Reminded me at times of 'A Field in England', 'The Witch', 'Midsommar', 'Hereditary' and with creatures from Hellboy II thrown in for good measure.
Looked and sounded beautiful. And the ending was smart and unexpected.
What a lot of critics missed is that the movie script is not a recipe based on the three act structure. You have a movie like anything you saw. This is not a good movie, it is a great one.
I loved the bit where Sir Bobby Ewing was in the shower.
Saw this in the cinema last night. I really wanted to like this film but I found it incredibly slow, episodic and just plain boring at times. Large parts of the film I felt like I was just sitting around waiting for something to happen. There were parts that were good: beginning, cinematography, Dev’s performance. But overall it was just a bad film and I’m slightly baffled as to how it’s been reviewed so well
It's a great shame it had such a limited release. It's a good film but one I can't help think would be improved if I'd been able to see it in the cinema.
This one failed to capture me visually, sonically, the list goes on, where was the plot? I watched it on my projector, still found myself half asleep and wishing it would just end, and I'm all for meditative, slow movies, so long as they have characters and a story.
Not for the cerebral challenged..
I had the great pleasure of seeing this in a nearly empty cinema. Loved it, a great film that I would thoroughly recommend, especially on the big screen
I loved the 1970's version with Murray Head, looking forward to seeing this version
Spot on about the cinematic poetry. Echoes of Tarkovsky in there. And might I say, one of the stars of the film had to be Ireland!
I watched this last night with a couple of friends. To be honest at the end of the movie none of use could quite put our finger on exactly (a) what had just happened and (b) why whatever happened just happened. However, talking afterwards it was really interesting how we each had different interpretations. Beautiful cinematography, well acted, quite odd, I think I enjoyed it, but my original expectations were perhaps unfairly high after Mark's review. That's not a criticism of the film or Mark though.
I finally saw it last night on AP with headphones in, on a reasonably sized tablet in a darkened room. Not the cinematic experience I was hoping for but it was still completely immersive. I really enjoyed the film and will certainly watch it again but it just missed the substance and pathos of a life journey film like 'Barry Lyndon'. Don't get me wrong, among the well meaning but ultimately heartless fodder churned out these days, this is a very welcome feast but it just lacked story and character development that would have made me 'feel' more. One other good thing that came out of seeing this though is, I now want to track down and read the source material. Well done Mr Lowery
I last night fielded a call from my daughter who wanted to sound off about how disappointed she had been by this film. I have always loved and been intrigued by the story, and am well-acquainted with the poem (English Degree). I used to use it as a tale to tell her on walks. She found the art direction beautiful, but said that (Dev Patel excepted) the acting is amateurish (I am an actor myself), and that, if one is familiar with the original story, one is inevitably offended by the way in which its iconography is subverted. One of my earliest disappointments (it still rankles) was the way the 1966 film of Beau Geste utterly mangled the novel. Should I risk going to see The Green Knight?
Superb. Need to see for yourself.. So many levels..
I found it dissapointing visually great but plot wise very hollow and quite dull dev Patel seemed to be best thing in it
Looking forward to this one. On a side note, at what age do you think Mark realised he had a wonky microphone?
Could. Not. Agree. More (with this review).
Utterly breathtaking in every respect.
The cinematography and world-building are up there with the best and the closing quarter and finale are still haunting me.
I like cerebral movies. I've watched this twice and will watch it again. It helps if you are familiar with the original story of The Green Knight. Its very multilayered and has many metaphorical meanings and messages which to decipher. The acting is brilliant. Think I will watch it again tonight. The ending is open and you decide what happens unless you know the story.
Beautiful film!! Was shocked it got a low audience score! However Love Island is the most popular thing on TV....So maybe thats a good thing?
I was surprised he loved it. I found it a visualy interesting but really slow moving and didnt have much traction to flow it on and a lot of it made little sense.
When I came out of the movie theater I didn't know if I liked or not. The next day I loved it.
You know a film is bad when it has to resort to lots of bold text to explain scenes.
I found it self indulgent and pretentious. The montages were jarring. It just didn’t draw you into the character. The viewer is left feeling very much like they’re watching a film, rather than actively participating. It was visually stunning I’ll give you that, but then, so too are marvel films….
Just curious, how many Americans watch Kermode?
Bored and confused as very few of the characters overcame anything or grew/changed/learnt anything or mattered to the story.
Maybe I just don't know/care enough about the history of this fantasy genre.
I expect and equally positive review for the next Transformer film, as they too are very pretty to watch
Nice set pieces, visually great(aside from some of the cgi which was pretty cheesy) and well-acted, but this was a mess really. It didn't really say all that much imo, save for the scene where the lady of the house he stays at gives her speech about everything returning to green. I was expecting a lot more based on the review!
Loved this; the beginning pulled me into its world. Great ending. Found it a little long though, maybe the manor sequence could have been trimmed a little. Will rewatch to reassess.
I can't find any cinema where this is playing! 😫
It might occur to you that some people listen to reviews in advance, not to hear the story revealed, but to influence their decision to see it. WTF
I can understand why people didn't get on with this film but I found it absolutely captivating.
Barry Keoghan is the most terrifying character, oddly
I thought everything was great about it but the writing made it a terrible adaptation. The filmaking is extremely good but narratively makes little sense and throws away the fundamental theme of the original story. I think lowery is a very good filmmaker but just doesn't translate the original narrative to the screen.