The Thing with Feathers

"There are strong scenes, and Cumberbatch delivers a performance to crow about."

"Too self-conscious to challenge or work through loss with same power as the book."

"What the script loses by making an actual monster it gains in small, poignant details."

"A disastrous adaptation of a wonderful book."

"A strong visual element that threatens to inject life into an otherwise dour affair."

"Wraps us in the wings of grief as we fall into its nastiest depths."

"Thinly veiled metaphor ends up robbing the story of all emotional power."

"Cumberbatch’s haggardly expressive face could tell the story alone..."

"Harrowing and distressing, yet somewhat cathartic viewing."

"The material is just so ill-suited to this unpoetic quasi-horror approach."

"Strangely beautiful, well paced and moving."