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The Devil All the Time

2020

Antonio Campos

Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan ...

6.5

14,135

Thriller. Drama In a place called Knockemstiff, Ohio, a forgotten backwoods of this country, where a storm of faith, violence and redemption is brewing. Out of desperation to save his dying wife, Willard Russell turns to prayer which succumbs to sacrifice. This sets protagonist Arvin, Willard’s son (Holland), on his path from bullied kid to a man who knows when to take action. “The Devil All the Time” involves a nefarious cast of characters that is told across two decades. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"[Campos's] greatest feat may be that he was able to wrangle a story as ripe and unwieldy as 'Devil' at all — toeing a tricky line between art-house atmosphere and Southern Gothic soap opera"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It's hard to imagine how a movie with this much sordid crime and violence could be this rote (...) The movie isn’t really interested in what makes the sinners tick"	NEG
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A mixed bag of bones and bodies, whose Southern Gothic atmosphere and superb performances — from Holland especially — are let down by the film’s lack of narrative focus (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A film brimming with excellent acting (...) Campos and cinematographer Lol Crawley do a superb job of creating an ominous atmosphere (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ryan Lattanzio IndieWire	"Even the star power of Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson can't rescue this colossal misfire, a sweaty mess from start to finish"	NEG
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"It’s easy on the eyes, though, and it’s worth seeing for an intriguingly cast ensemble, authenticating the milieu as much as possible (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"Generally speaking, it feels pointless. It's trying to be provocative and shocking merely for the sake of provoking and shocking its audience"	NEG
United States	James Verniere Boston Herald	"Tom Holland proves to have more acting chops and brooding soulfulness than his Spider-Man has ever displayed"	POS
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"Pattinson offers a gripping portrait of honey-dipped depravity (...) 'The Devil All the Time' errs by stuffing almost every subplot from the book into a movie that's already groaning from a case of too-muchness"	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"Give me a movie that bites off more than it can chew any time over one that doesn’t bite at all (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Although the film can be a tad unrelenting, it’s highly watchable (...) What saves this movie from becoming torture porn is the psychological detail involved (...) The main virtues of 'Devil' are its actors (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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