An extraordinarily personal film, A Dark Song feels like a folk tale whispered to you at night while you sleep by person or persons unknown, recalled in vague half-remembered images and flashes of almost incomprehensible truths.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 25, 2018

Imperfectly realized, but still worthy of its ambition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 26, 2017

An instant classic, the sort of film that will make you check under your bed at night and then amplify into terror the midnight creaks and 3am breezes that unsettle every house at times, most especially yours.

| May 25, 2017

A Dark Song is a beguiling terror that saves its best reveals right up until the end, the lines between good and evil, right and wrong, Heaven and Hell, hypnotically blurring until they practically no longer exist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 28, 2017

Virtually a chamber piece with just two primary characters, the movie dives into the black arts with methodical restraint and escalating unease.

| Apr 27, 2017

The two leads are resolute soldiers about it all, but they're dutifully edgy elements in a stylist's frame instead of fully realized characters living out what is supposed to be the riskiest time of their lives.

| Apr 27, 2017

The two central performances, Cathal Watters' claustrophobic lensing and Anna Maria O'Flanagan's trippy cuts ensure there's quite enough black magic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2017

The film becomes hypnotic even when a little horrible.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2017

An artful film with psychological insight, even if the CG-heavy finale doesn't quite hit home.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2017

[Gavin's] fearsome telling of that story is an incredible testament to the heart-chilling terror that subtlety and implication brings.

| Oct 10, 2016

It is sublime, uncanny and in the end deeply moving - and there is nothing else out there remotely like it.

| Oct 8, 2016