“The fun here is in the audacious attempt and the performances.”
“This is not your mother’s Wuthering Heights!” the movie howls back at the wind whipping over those moors.”
“An atheist and a satanist walk into a bone temple…”
“… understands the urgency of this moment.”
“A bit of a whiff for Frank Capra…”
“… has a wistful, morbid magic.”
“While always mesmerized, I admittedly got lost amidst the layers…”
“… aims to be a big-screen version of a lurid pulp crime novel.”
“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”
“Unusually sensitive, in the sense that every element seems to pulse with its own life force. . .”
“… has significant Ash Wednesday resonance.”
