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The Turning

2020

Floria Sigismondi

Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Niall Greig Fulton ...

3.6

1,617

Horror. Thriller A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw".

	Author	Review
United States	Courtney Howard Variety	"Henry James’ gothic psychological thriller about a woman’s mounting madness is turned into a forgettable rather than frightening feature (...) Its modern commentary can occasionally be absorbing"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Turning' sacrifices narrative and emotional coherence in favor of a series of would-be scary set pieces that seem mainly designed to discourage aspiring nannies from pursuing the vocation"	NEG
United States	Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"In a movie as utterly lost as 'The Turning', everything from the performances to the production design to the music cues amount to one big pile of dirty mirrors and doll parts."	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"This lackluster adaptation of 'The Turning of the Screw' isn’t going to make anyone forget earlier, better versions (...) [It] is not a total loss. There are some stylish, nearly giallo-like sequences and sensitive performances"	NEU
United Kingdom	Stephen Whitty Screendaily	"[It] fails to make the most of its source material (...) Instead of intriguing ambiguity, this updated version (...) offers only maddening confusion."	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"This film is a total waste of time. Don’t even read the review (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jude Dry IndieWire	"Davis disintegrates convincingly from innocent lamb to disheveled victim (...) 'The Turning' announces Sigismondi as a bold and adept genre filmmaker"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"[It] has Davis, too skilled an actress to be reduced to miming ashen poses (...) Humorless — and scare-free."	NEG
United States	Matt Dougherty IGN	"'The Turning' damns itself with good ideas turned bad and a flat-out ugly execution"	NEG
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A contrived and spiritless disappointment (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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