A mousy Alicia Vikander casts a convincing spell...and Westmoreland finds plenty of additional intrigue in this late 1980s Japanese setting...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 2, 2019

Earthquake Bird is somewhat laborious in making its points, but it's a film whose unsettling qualities will grow on you with time.

| Nov 25, 2019

The number of themes present in the film might work in literary form, but as a film, Earthquake Bird feels rushed and incomplete.

| Nov 18, 2019

Unfortunately, a turn that renders it more engaging than the stale psychological thriller it is for most of its running time never emerges, wasting good performances from Alicia Vikander and Riley Keough along the way.

| Nov 18, 2019

When Keough is not onscreen, the film turns from pulse-racing to deadly dull.

| Nov 16, 2019

Without the depth and detail of Jones' prose too much of the movie is lost in the same in-between that Lucy is trying to chart for herself.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 15, 2019

There's a decent movie buried somewhere deep in the willfully dull Earthquake Bird.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 15, 2019

A very interesting filmmaker...a psycho-noir in which the relationships are both passionate and oddly chilly.

| Nov 8, 2019

For all its consideration, while "Earthquake Bird" adds up to a "real" movie, it's too polite to add up to an entirely compelling one.

| Nov 7, 2019

The film isn't cleverly subverting our expectations for a greater purpose in these moments; it's just vague and confusing.

| Nov 4, 2019

It's slightly silly, but generally engrossing. And Vikander really does give good sulk.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2019

A steamy guilty pleasure with a really good cast.

| Nov 2, 2019

An intriguing, if sometimes redundant, psychological noir...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2019

Earthquake Bored.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2019

A kind of slow-burn version of last year's "Burning," minus much of the psychological intrigue.

| Oct 30, 2019

A fairly flat treatment of over-familiar plot elements, and fatally low on the key psycho-thriller elements of suspense, surprise and dread.

| Oct 10, 2019

Everyone here appears to be revelling in the opportunities Earthquake Bird brings to hit up our memories of everything from Fatal Attraction to Single White Female.

| Oct 10, 2019