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

In the Earth is a horror film with razor-sharp teeth, even if the relative flimsiness behind that facade betrays its spur-of-the-moment inception.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2021

It all ends with a prolonged blast of rapid-fire psychedelia that seemed like an outrageous narrative cop out.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 21, 2021

A breath of frightening fresh air with a pantheistic sting in its tail.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2021

Not everything works in the admirably bizarre In the Earth, but nobody can deny Wheatley is back in his freak-folk wheelhouse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 18, 2021

A chilling folk horror with the usual Wheatley-esque tongue in cheek approach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 17, 2021

What it rarely feels is entirely new, never quite successfully conjuring up the air of evil that, for example, permeates Lars von Trier's 2009 film Antichrist.

| Jun 16, 2021

Wheatley plunges us into his rusty tank of weirdness with gusto and Fry and Torchia handle this ordeal with impeccable seriousness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2021

In The Earth is filmmaking at its most gnarly and elemental yet smart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2021

In the Earth is an immersive portrait of tribalism and madness, angst and survivalism. ... The film builds to an unshakably tense, unsettlingly eerie conclusion.

| May 2, 2021

In the Earth is admirably ambitious, but it's far too disjointed and doesn't offer enough insight to justify sitting through so much unpleasantness.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 22, 2021

Gnaws at the nerves and bludgeons the senses until submission-to humanity's helplessness in the face of the ancient world's elemental power-is the only recourse.

| Apr 20, 2021

Even though some sections feel rushed and it falls apart at the end, every part of it is memorable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2021

Does "In the Earth" run off the rails into addled sensationalism in the end? Yes. But while it's steaming ahead at full power, Wheatley's magic mushroom trip is a grueling yet exhilarating ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 17, 2021

In The Earth feeds the indiscriminate appetites of gorehounds and bong-rippers alike. Everyone else may find it as ghastly boring as the violence is just plain ghastly.

| Original Score: C | Apr 17, 2021

Sinister and hilarious, psychedelic yet grounded, absurdist while still gripping, In the Earth will take root in you.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2021

The film rattles apart as it goes along...

| Apr 16, 2021

Wheatley crafts a plague film that isn't necessarily about a plague, but that captures the anxiety and fear of invisible forces beyond our control impelling us, unknowingly, into danger.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 16, 2021

"Earth" deserves points for originality, but grows wobbly by its end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2021