It’s a film of brilliant moments rather than a brilliant film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

In the Earth is the kind of movie that’s destined to gain a cult following ... There’s some weaker stuff to sit through, but when this film hits its stride, it really hits its stride.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 5, 2024

Wheatley manages to blend science fantasy and horror to explore the paranoia and chaos in a pandemic-ravaged world.

| Original Score: B | Jul 4, 2024

With Hollywood heading in the direction of the psychological horror, it is nice to see this gorefest from Wheatley and to just have fun with it.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 1, 2024

Though it may not be as action-packed or accessible as Wheatley’s previous attempts, it has to be congratulated for its unique vibe and stunning cinematography.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2023

Ben Wheatley’s film is surrounded by an eerie, mysterious environment that simply fails to transmit anything slightly captivating or significant to the audience.

| Original Score: C- | Jul 24, 2023

A welcome return to form for Wheatley but whilst visually stunning the end result is slightly half-baked.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2022

Some of those shifts in plot and tone can leave the audience unbalanced in ways that feel unintentional, pulling you out of the experience at times, but it all wraps around to a final stretch that sees Wheatley at the top of his game.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2022

Wheatley returns to the dark and gnarly storytelling he cut his filmmaking teeth on. And at a time when so many are burned out from quarantining and itching to get out of the house, “In the Earth” may leave you second guessing that impulse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Deftly blending science fiction and various subgenres of horror, Wheatley is firing on all cylinders in this paranoid vision of an entire world struggling to find meaning and purpose in dire circumstances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2022

Give Ben Wheatley a small cast of actors, a few tents, some strobe lights, and an industrial-strength fog machine, and he can make a pretty entertaining movie for cheap.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

I assume that horror film fans will like this, on the further assumption such fans have a higher tolerance for blood and gore than I do. Based on such horror film standards alone, I'll give it a pass.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 22, 2022

It's got a little Annihilation in it, some 10 Cloverfield Lane too; it's steeped in folk-horror tradition.

| Dec 14, 2021

In the Earth is undeniably a trip. But it's a trip that only takes us on a tour of references to better movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 1, 2021

A psychedelic and emotional journey for the characters, however viewers expecting easy and frank answers will easily become frustrated.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 6, 2021

Bloodily observes how fervent belief makes fools of us all.

| Aug 3, 2021

A cooked-to-formula script that tries to play edgy with contemporary anxieties and an impure-nature setting.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 29, 2021

This palate-cleanser revisits hallucinatory Brit paganism as an obsession, and with the odd sense of terrifying amplitude emanating from what must be by now a pretty modest hunk of wilderness.

| Jul 20, 2021

I do actually think this is one of Wheatley's better films of late.

| Jul 13, 2021

It has effective scares, and it certainly kept me gripped.

| Jul 13, 2021