It's that plausibility factor that makes The Ones Below so effective.

| Mar 29, 2019

The film's ultimate reveal is hardly shocking, and that the film spends a gratuitous amount time unspooling it long after it's clear what has gone down feels indulgent and unearned.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 2, 2017

The Ones Below is a powerful thriller, a movie that toys with audience expectation at every turn, making it the type of debut Farr will be proud to lead off his resume with long into the foreseeable future.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2016

There are elements of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle here, but Mr. Farr and an excellent cast of four give it fluidity and balance without the familiar "gotcha."

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 2, 2016

Even as events turn more than a tad preposterous with twists that seem not just predictable but inevitable, Farr keeps a handle on the tension and tone, which keeps us hooked.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2016

There's much to admire in the thriller "The Ones Below."

| May 26, 2016

Capably delivering on its ominous title, "The Ones Below" is a masterfully calibrated psychological thriller that deviously plays off of anxieties surrounding contemporary notions of domesticity and identity.

| May 26, 2016

There's plenty to enjoy in the film, starting with a pair of affecting performances by Clmence Posy and Laura Birn, and ending with a perverse twist on the notion of blissful parenthood.

| May 26, 2016

Its themes, and its "Rosemary"-like lullaby, may haunt you for days ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2016

A thriller that exasperates more than it thrills.

| Original Score: C | May 26, 2016

Even the film's lapses inform it with a free-associative sense of portent, evoking the stupid things we inexplicably do in our most personal nightmares.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2016

Farr ... makes a solid fist of his big-screen debut as writer/director, generating some small-scale chills which are undiminished by the occasionally creaky dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2016

The plot gestates tautly, before the truth, no less harrowing for being expected, comes out... In thrall to Roman Polanski, and all the better for it.

| Mar 11, 2016

The behaviour of the characters stretches credibility. The performances, though, are striking, especially that of Posy as the young mum assailed by feelings of guilt, doubt, suspicion and hostility as her grasp on reality begins to loosen.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2016

A paranoid thriller about two well-heeled Islington couples who find they are having first babies weeks apart and live in the same building.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2016

All in all, The Ones Below is a creepy genre exercise by a craftsman finding his groove.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2016

Creepy and ambiguous with a winning line in everyday horror.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 7, 2016

The Ones Below is an intimately disturbing nightmare of the upper middle classes, with tinges of melodrama and staginess, entirely appropriate for its air of suppressed psychosis.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2016