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All Critics (82) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (74) | Rotten (8)
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It isn't exactly terrifying, but is well-acted and sinister enough to rise (levitate ominously?) above the pack.
November 7, 2020 | Full Review… -
It adds up to a pretty sophisticated and dark, creepy little movie.
November 7, 2020 | Full Review… -
While your own mileage will vary, I preferred the earlier parts of the film to the rest, because hell starts to break loose pretty fast.
November 6, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review… -
The ambient sound design, disturbing musical score, disorienting visuals and subtle special effects add immeasurably to the overall impact, but it's Ireland's shattering performance that truly gives the film its gripping power.
November 6, 2020 | Full Review… -
"The Dark and the Wicked" would benefit from some light and some normal.
November 5, 2020 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review… -
Ambiguous and allusive, "The Dark and the Wicked" feels saturated in helpless misery and nerve-clanging dread.
November 5, 2020 | Full Review…
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Nov 26, 2020An indescribably bleak story of coming home far too late in rural Texas. Filmed in the director's own childhood homestead, the geography of familiar places is subverted into a labyrinth of creeping despair. What does the entity want? This is one of those stories where you feel suffocated by shadows. Do not watch depressed.Charles M Super Reviewer
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Nov 09, 2020I was excited to check out Bryan Bertino's latest offering, "The Dark and the WIcked." His debut, "The Strangers," was an instant classic introducing masked home invaders in the most unsettling of ways. His followup, "The Monster," was well-crafted as an estranged mother and daughter get stranded in their car in the woods while being stalked by a monster. It was ultimately disappointing as there was nothing to connect the disparate creepy happenings to the story-line. Many movies try to tease the viewer with unreliable narrators, leaving them to ponder whether what is happening is supernatural or all in the characters head. "The Babadook," "Black Swan," and "The Lighthouse" are examples of movies that do this right. Unfortunately, this doesn't. It's clearly something supernatural haunting everybody, but beyond some disturbing and/or violent scenes (all of which are well done), the movie is just too ambiguous in a very frustrating way.Mark B Super Reviewer
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