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From Sundance: ‘The Thing With Feathers’ Falls Prey to Its Overarching Metaphor
Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed ...
The Thing with Feathers Review
Benedict Cumberbatch feels out of place in a horror movie that asks “What if grief were an annoying bird creature?” ...
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: A Go-for-Broke Benedict Cumberbatch Unravels in a Movie Stuck Awkwardly Between Horror and Psychodrama
Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed father and the menacing ...
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The Thing With Feathers Review: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Layered Performance Outshines The Weak Horror Elements Of Dismal Adaptation
Southern’s creative style and direction to manifest grief onscreen interconnects with the horror genre, it's just not ...
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The Thing With Feathers Sundance Review — Benedict Cumberbatch Shines in Overt but Effective Horror Allegory
Horror films aren’t exactly known for their subtlety, but The Thing With Feathers has no subtlety in sight. On paper, The ...
Benedict Cumberbatch on Wrestling with a Crow, Kids, and Grief While Being British in ‘The Thing with Feathers’
The Thing with Feathers' director Dylan Southern and star Benedict Cumberbatch talk about their Sundance premiere about a ...
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Sundance 2025 Q&A: ‘The Thing with Feathers’ adapts Max Porter’s novella on grief to the big screen
The Thing with Feathers” is exploring grief in its most shadowy stages. Screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the ...
How the Who inspired a key scene in Benedict Cumberbatch's new movie,
In Benedict Cumberbatch's new film, 'The Thing With Feathers,' a key tableau draws direct inspiration from the album cover ...
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“Each Set of Rushes Presents a Unique Puzzle”: Editor George Cragg on The Thing with Feathers
In The Thing with Feathers, a widower and father of two suspects he is being stalked by a crow-like figure. The adaptation of Max Porter’s book of the same name stars Benedict Cumberbatch and is the ...
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‘The Thing With Feathers’ Sundance review: Benedict Cumberbatch talks to a giant crow in bizarre misfire
Running time: 104 minutes. Not yet rated. PARK CITY, Utah — Another title for “The Thing With Feathers,” which premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, could be “The Giant ...
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The Thing with Feathers
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 ...