Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed ...

Benedict Cumberbatch feels out of place in a horror movie that asks “What if grief were an annoying bird creature?” ...

Grief is a complex emotion, and the visceral nature of it all can make you feel monstrous. The Thing With Feathers is adapted ...

Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed father and the menacing giant crow that attaches itself to his sorrow.

The Thing with Feathers' director Dylan Southern and star Benedict Cumberbatch talk about their Sundance premiere about a ...

Horror films aren’t exactly known for their subtlety, but The Thing With Feathers has no subtlety in sight. On paper, The ...

The Thing with Feathers” is exploring grief in its most shadowy stages. Screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the ...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief is the thing with feathers. The actor stars as a father who is mourning the death of his wife in Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, Dylan Southern’s upcoming film ...

For all the artistry behind it, however, The Thing with Feathers will likely prove divisive; for survivors of trauma, it will likely be cathartic, but for others more fortunate, its pitch-perfect ...

The Thing With Feathers may be based on a book, but it also takes inspiration from an unlikely source — the album cover of the Who's 1979 album, The Kids Are Alright. The film premiered at the ...

Benedict Cumberbatch gives it his all in The Thing with Feathers, but the horror movie lives up to neither his performance, nor its own heavy-handed metaphor of a bullying crow-creature ...