This inventive, psychedelic trip back in time to the 1600s is an extreme and exhilarating experience for fans of dark humor and unsettling horror.

| May 22, 2024

Touchstones include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Wicker Man, and Peter Watkins Culloden. The small cast comes from British comedy, which is so much more wide-ranging and serious than American comedy that it's - well, its not even funny.

| Original Score: B | Apr 12, 2022

Ken Russell directing Monty Python's Waiting For Godot

| Jan 14, 2022

An extremely confusing feature saddled with a script filled with non-sequiturs and giant-sized plot holes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 22, 2019

Field in England feels like it was tossed off as a quick project rather than something carefully made.

| Original Score: 5.4/10 | Jun 26, 2019

It's admirable that Wheatley's attempting to tap into an idea of Englishness with his merging of a civil war backstory to notions of landscape and England's rural-social past.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2019

For all its drawbacks, A Field in England is undoubtedly best on the big screen -- if just for its striking visuals and memorable oddities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2019

A Field in England becomes a film that necessitates and acquired taste to appreciate it. That being said, if you have enjoyed any of Wheatley's films to date you should check out this one as well.

| Aug 21, 2018

Laurie Rose, Wheatley's regular DP, brings to the film the same charged feel for landscape he so potently demonstrated in Sightseers.

| Apr 4, 2018

A Field in England can be seen as a dying man's fever dream, or even a sojourn into the afterlife, a vision of hell in which O'Neill must be Lucifer.

| Oct 11, 2017

Hallucinogenic black-and-white visuals, eerie sounds, sporadic splatter and potentially insufferable philosophising are blessedly leavened with earthy humour. Think Tarkovsky's Stalker meets Monty Python's Holy Grail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2017

A brilliant, uncompromising and deliberate experiment set in a very specific time, in a very specific place, and under incredibly specific conditions, A Field in England is a wonderfully bizarre microcosm of abstraction.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 16, 2017

A Field in England is strange, captivating, metaphoric, and utterly obtuse.

| Original Score: B | Jun 27, 2016

[Offers] a pervasive sense of unease, an almost physical sense of things being entirely and perversely not right with the film, as you're watching it.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 1, 2015

With some semblance of coherence among the [psychedelic] imagery, A Field In England might have been something special.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 18, 2014

Do you have to fully "understand" a film to enjoy it? No. Case in point: this movie.

| May 8, 2014

The trippiest historical horror film ever made?

| Mar 27, 2014

It's the English Civil War on magic mushrooms!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2014

A Field In England is mad monochrome mayhem that's utterly hypnotic.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 13, 2014

And now for something completely different: a black comedy set in 17th-century England at the time of the Civil War and given a lift with some psilocybin mushrooms. Oliver Cromwell, meet Timothy Leary.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 13, 2014