We Have Always Lived in the Castle
2018, Mystery and thriller, 1h 36m
30 Reviews 500+ RatingsWhat to know
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle draws on Shirley Jackson's classic tale to deliver a skillfully crafted mystery that engrosses and unsettles in equal measure. Read critic reviews
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Merricat Blackwood
Constance Blackwood
Uncle Julian
Charles Blackwood
Helen Clarke
Bobby Dunham
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The film adaptation of We Have Always Lived in the Castle understands Shirley Jackson's novel as a tale of male abuse and female rage.
June 14, 2019 | Full Review… -
Emotionally high-stakes drama.
May 17, 2019 | Full Review… -
Passon makes the creepy stuff too low-key, less a case of building dread than growing impatience.
May 16, 2019 | Full Review… -
Allows Passon to work with a larger, more complex canvas while still displaying her intuitive understanding of women seeking to overthrow repression and societal expectation.
May 16, 2019 | Full Review… -
The movie, though, which was adapted by Mark Kruger, is all surface polish and play-acted oddness, from the cloying symmetry of the stalely composed shots to the cartoonish depiction of some awfully complicated - nigh perverse - family relationships.
May 16, 2019 | Full Review… -
Under Stacie Passon's precise direction, this gothic fable of isolation and violence expertly treads a fine line between tragedy and camp.
May 16, 2019 | Full Review…
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Dec 18, 2019I genuinely like all four of the core cast members of We Have Always Lived in the Castle especially Daddario, and they're all good in this, and there are a couple of scenes here with genuine tension, but the reality is that by the end of movie, I'd spent half of the runtime straight-up bored.Gimly M Super Reviewer
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