The Devil All the Time Reviews
please do not do a flashback of a scene that I already saw moments ago. A quick flash to remind us of what happened earlier is fine, but rewatching the entire scene feels repetitive and monotonous. It is not as if the scene was that good the first time
| Jun 15, 2024
I love the final product we got and with the incredible cast performances, compelling story, and the dark tone that lingered throughout the long-yet-warranted screen time, this is a film that has stuck with me since I first saw it.
| Mar 1, 2024
Tom Holland and an all-star cast shine in The Devil All The Time, a midwestern gothic crime drama whose well-crafted, meaningful ending makes up for a confused narrative structure.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 12, 2023
The narrative’s focus on religion is bold and audacious, showing how blind faith can negatively influence people’s lives, taking them and others through the most painful paths.
| Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2023
The ensemble of actors is potent and committed. They're a buffet of pretend dialects and drawls, but each performance is as unwavering as it is neat.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 20, 2023
It’s an old-fashioned romp, a kind of narrative which is hardly in vogue nowadays. The acting is world-class, however, and more than makes up for the glitches...
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 3, 2022
The Devil All the Time is an engrossing gothic tale full of backwoods preachers, thrill killers, religious zealots, and a handful of broken, weathered souls that cannot come to grips with the horrors of war that religion could not wash clean.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 2, 2022
“The Devil all the Time” is a cold and relentless tale of human depravity with hardly a glimmer of light. And the few instances of hope (and I do mean FEW) are usually planted just so they can be squashed.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2022
One of the best casted movies I've seen. "The Devil All the Time" is all about its characters and their unwilling way of deepening themselves in an endless whole of tragedy. Full review in Spanish
| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 7, 2022
The Devil All the Time is one of the best-cast films in recent memory. But all the talent and craft behind the picture cannot overcome the story's overbearing unpleasantness, which is, frankly, exhausting.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022
Overall, the film is well-acted, and there is a lot of drama, but if there is any takeaway from this film it would be, avoid the woods in the country at all cost.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 2, 2021
A grim, violent, and weighty film that captures the brutality and sorrow of small-town rural America.
| Original Score: 3.5 / 5 | Jun 25, 2021
The Devil All the Time is all plot; it somehow manages to be both terribly busy and very boring.
| Jun 5, 2021
Two and a half hours of unrelenting sadness, anxiety and distress - but impossible to stop watching.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 29, 2021
Gripping and harrowing, but why?
| Mar 31, 2021
The actors' merit lies in achieving an impact in the limited amount of time that they have to intervene. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2021
[T]he film truly feels like an amalgam of every Southern Gothic trope thrown together ... but there is no shortage of talent and the performances feel authentic.
| Mar 3, 2021
Despite all it has going for it, however, the Southern Gothic-flavored slice of noir never manages to hook the viewer.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2021
This film doubles down on the grimness in such a way that it takes itself too seriously.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2021
The performances are strong but if there's a more unrelentingly bleak film in 2020 I will do my best to avoid it.
| Original Score: C+ | Feb 10, 2021