Writer-director William McGregor's debut feature film, "Gwen," has the eerie quiet and grim portent of a supernatural horror story, but it's a genre picture more in form than content.

| Aug 15, 2019

The film looks and sounds the part of an elegantly haunted gothic horror movie, only to skip past standard chiller expectations to disquiet its audience in more grounded, historically rooted ways.

| Aug 7, 2019

Atmospheric, creepy, and it had a real sense of bitter chill. Very, very well played by the cast.

| Jul 25, 2019

It's a bleakly beautiful film, full of angry skies and distant thunder.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 22, 2019

There comes a point at which the suffering the characters endure undermines their power instead of reinforcing it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 21, 2019

The story might feel a little one-note at times, but Gwen is an atmospherically rich - and starkly beautiful - tale of anguish.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2019

No shortage of striking images. A rewatch may be rewarding.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2019

Imagine Thomas Hardy with more jump scares and you've basically got it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2019

This is not social realism in the style of Ken Loach, but it is a film with a strong sense of outrage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2019

This 19th century-set tale takes its time building a seriously eerie atmosphere loaded with credible period detail, with character development and drip-fed backstory just as crucial as scares and revelations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 15, 2019

Ultimately, McGregor piles so much misfortune on his downtrodden heroines with so little dramatic justification, the net emotional effect is more numbing than moving.

| Sep 8, 2018

Worthington-Cox is terrific; the mounting uncertainty in her eyes seeds the suspicion of wrongdoing throughout the film.

| Sep 8, 2018