Unfortunately the filmmakers introduce a sci-fi element in the second half that deflates much of the interpersonal tension and shifts the focus from the subtleties of mind control to the vagaries of time and space.

| Mar 5, 2020

The biggest lesson of The Endless is how we can allow our lives to loop around in one crappy cycle until we cop out.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 31, 2018

Despite an imaginative concept, the narrative feels surprisingly bland, even when the pieces begin to fall into place - and when there's no quick punchline to fall back on, the film suffers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2018

A mind-bending Möbius strip of a movie, this indie sci-fi makes up for what it lacks in budget with a wealth of playful ideas.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2018

The cinematography is fluid. The performances are cool and precise. The film itself is worth forming a cult around.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2018

It's slightly baffling at times, but always inventive and disquieting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 29, 2018

The grounding force of this film is the brothers' relationship, which is contentious but loving, and wholly realistic.

| Jun 29, 2018

Bewitching.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2018

There is a very good idea for a really intriguing, startling film here, that finally gets a little lost in its own freakily cosmic claustrophobia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 28, 2018

This impressive low-budget indie weaves a genre-defying tapestry of weirdness, atmospherics and cultish horrors across a dusty US setting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 28, 2018

Benson and Moorhead navigate this tricky terrain skilfully both in front of as well as behind the camera, their performances low-key and naturalistic, allowing the leads to be comfortably mundane while the circumstances around them prove anything but.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2018

This is Benson and Moorhead's most professionally-made movie to date, but they hold on to an amateurish enthusiasm that works largely for the best.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2018

Even lovers of the opaque might desire a little more to grasp onto. But the mystery is a pungent one, and the images and ideas stay with you after the lights go up.

| Original Score: B+ | May 10, 2018

"The Endless" grows more mind-boggling as it goes on, but Benson and Moorhead keep the film grounded, making its twists and turns all the more compelling.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 27, 2018

The Endless goes places both eerily unexpected and emotionally affecting, the all-encompassing monstrous beauty of this spellbinding sci-fi thriller impossible to understate.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 27, 2018

The eventual reveal fits with the film's overall intelligence and interest in people and existence over spectacle and action. (Though there's some of that as well.) The Endless is a smart, sweetly creepy good time.

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

"The Endless" gets into your head and keeps you alert for whatever abnormal turn comes next.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2018

Spooky, funny, touching and very, very well made.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2018

Great use of an eerie Southern California landscape and some fine, naturalistic acting emphasizes how the ordinary can sometimes seem threatening - and vice-versa.

| Apr 12, 2018

The Endless feels like a thunderstorm. It brews slowly, softly, and then in the blink of an eye, has consumed you, booming with fury and jaw-dropping force.

| Apr 7, 2018