The movie lacks urgency. The world may be burning; here, it barely simmers.

| Mar 4, 2019

An intensely bleak feminist-tinged apocalyptic tale of sisterly love and devotion taken to the extreme.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2018

...[an] intimate, gripping and quietly thoughtful post-apocalyptic drama. Undoubtedly, Into The Forest marches into the wayward woods of darkness in what amounts to be a surreal, disastrous fairy tale tainted in psychological turmoil.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2018

For a feminist attempt to show two women leaning on each other, Into the Forest barely sketches them out.

| Aug 27, 2018

It's well-acted, well-shot, and the score is outstanding.

| Aug 22, 2018

Into the Forest has its share of dramatic scenes, but Rozema is more focused on the emotional effects of the crisis...the result is a stark, emotional story about survival and sisterhood - depicting not dystopia per se, but a new beginning.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 22, 2018

A film of rural terror... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 6, 2017

The director handles the fraternal relationship with warmth and security in the staging, both in the moments of conflict and in those more calm or minimally comforting. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 9, 2017

Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are as impressively understated as the direction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2016

A vision of the apocalypse as humanistic as emotional, that offers a painful and sincere look at the female universe of its protagonists and its hard beginning into adult life. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 12, 2016

A film that becomes the dramatic tale of two sisters who don't know how to live together or separated and suddenly discover that the forest in which they live is much better than the out of stock supermarket in the city. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 22, 2016

Such a scenario is provocative in an age of technological overload, but the screenplay turns into a muddled mood piece rather than capitalizing on its inherent urgency.

| Nov 7, 2016

Into the Forest may get lost in the glut of post-apocalyptic films... If that's the case, it'll be a shame, for this adaptation of Jean Hegland's gently sci-fi novel is a more intimate film than many of those zombie-busters and doomsday thrillers.

| Sep 13, 2016

Nell and Eva's relationship forms the heart of the film and, along with the fleeting moments of ecstasy they find in things previously taken for granted, their bond provides something of genuine beauty in a progressively bleak world.

| Sep 6, 2016

Unlike just about every other post-apocalyptic movie ever made, this sisterly drama has no aliens, chases, or fights; it's lushly beautiful, but heavy and soft. Yet its soapy quality may appeal to some audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2016

... a different kind of near-future drama, one that's by turns elegiac and comforting ... closer to 'Children of Men' than the unrelievedly downbeat 'The Road.'

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2016

... examines the true nature of humans once all of our constructed creature comforts disappear and we are forced to face ourselves in the light of the wilderness.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 15, 2016

This drama works almost throughout, but toward the end it fizzles out.

| Aug 1, 2016

This isn't torture-porn dystopia; it's a singular, honest, heartfelt portrait of sisterly devotion at the end of the world.

| Aug 1, 2016

Page and Wood, who are both in their upper 20s, hardly make for convincing teenagers, but they both lend weight to Eva and Nell's sisterly bond as the two siblings slowly unravel.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 1, 2016