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Critics Consensus: Hold the Dark's unsettling aesthetic offers more of what filmgoers expect from director Jeremy Saulnier - and is often enough to prop up shaky narrative underpinnings.
Critic Consensus: Hold the Dark's unsettling aesthetic offers more of what filmgoers expect from director Jeremy Saulnier - and is often enough to prop up shaky narrative underpinnings.
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The film never coheres outside of those flashes, ultimately delivering a disappointing, confusing, but undeniably fascinating experience.
It makes for intriguing and often gripping viewing, but delivers a more confounding experience than is necessary.
A bold, mesmerizing and journey into a land of shadows and mystery that will leave a deep and unnerving impression.
Its determined ambition and atmospheric skill keeps Saulnier firmly in the category of directors to watch.
Suddenly, what seemed like a man-vs-nature survivalist tale morphs into something that's part Arctic Noir and part violent art-horror.
If Hold The Dark lacks the sheer razor-wire tension of Saulnier's earlier crime-horror corkers, it still knows how to make the carnage count-to force us to experience, on a gut level, every casualty.
Alternately gorgeous and foreboding, Saulnier deftly doles out breadcrumbs for a tense and dark mystery
While Hold the Dark isn't as enrapturing as his previous two films, it is still a brutal, tense journey through the snow into the heart of darkness.
Hold the Dark feels like a mask which, when removed, reveals little underneath.
Holding the dark - embracing it within, or keeping it away - is what all of Saulnier's films are about.
There are a lot of big, heady themes woven throughout the story, none of which are ever fully developed, but rather are left as tantalizing, ambiguous nods toward deeper philosophical wells.
The film ends up being an exceptional reflexive exercise, a solid challenge that is based on the strength - but also on the apparent distance - of its images. [Full review in Spanish]
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