Well-meaning but dourly rote...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2023

[Mescal] and Watson are screen icons and we shouldn’t need reminding that while he’s in his prime, so is she.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 31, 2023

Most remarkably, the film is the feature debut of two American directors, Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer, who bring a laser-sharp outsider’s perspective to well-trodden material.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2023

It’s a tough watch, and a tense watch, but it’s powerfully affecting and plainly quality through and through. It asks: mothers will always instinctively protect their sons, but is that sometimes misguided?

| Mar 30, 2023

The script, written by Shane Crowley and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly, seeds tiny plot points that grow into pearls.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2023

It’s bleak and understated, but strong performances and a thorny moral maze give this considerable power despite the gloomy skies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2023

God’s Creatures looks hard at its subjects, and makes you look and come to judgement too. Blarney, it’s not.

| Mar 27, 2023

It's almost a misnomer to call it a thriller because it's very deliberately paced... It's really exquisitely wrought.

| Oct 14, 2022

God’s Creatures might explore familiar terrain, but that’s fine since it nails all the delights and features raw and real performances from Watson and Mescal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 13, 2022

With sound and cinematography, Holmer and Davis devise some relatively subtle but potent moments that isolate their characters against communal spaces – spaces within an all-too-cozy village where that community can be one’s blessing or curse.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 7, 2022

The beautifully rough-hewn locations, excellent performances from Watson, Mescal, and Aisling Franciosi, and a sustained air of simmering unease make this worth a look.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2022

God’s Creatures is a quiet movie, but its emotional drift is violent; Watson and Franciosi are particularly effective at giving us women being swept up into the currents.

| Sep 30, 2022

It’s a chilly film but not a heartless one; sometimes the nature of forgiveness is captured best in a small sliver of light.

| Sep 30, 2022

Yet another movie about a mother realizing too slowly that her son may be a dangerous sociopath.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2022

The movie carefully illustrates how some places develop their own ideas of right and wrong, that to outsiders can seem like a localized madness.

| Sep 30, 2022

Beautifully acted and stubbornly resistant to easy catharsis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2022

There are no easy answers in this poetic meditation on the symbiosis between mothers and children, and man and nature, adapted by Shane Crowley and based on a story he wrote with Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly.

| Original Score: B | Sep 29, 2022

“God’s Creatures” is ultimately a movie about the collision between a mother’s fidelity and her moral conscience, and Watson is terrific at telegraphing how these instincts grind against each other to terrifying ends.

| Sep 29, 2022

Sometimes the best viewings are not the easily digestible ones. This is a movie that sucks you in, rattles you and then spits you out. It’s an experience that’s worth it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 28, 2022

Holmer and Davis demonstrate a remarkable control over tone, performance and visual and aural storytelling, applying their sensibility to the taut, perfectly structured script by Shane Crowley.

| Sep 27, 2022