The script left a lot to be desired and left their actors out in the cold, leaving them to have to pick up a lot of the slack and thus the film became an exercise in patience...

| Apr 4, 2024

It's the kind of film that brings to light its mostly hidden world in ways that feel honest.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

It sounds good enough, but its attempts to slink around gender and supernatural clichés are too repetitive and lacking character to make its point feel more than moot.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 28, 2020

In their directorial debut, Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage fail to show the church in a neutral light, choosing instead to lean into a "crazy cult" caricature rather than evenly portray what is already a complex, divisive religious custom.

| Feb 21, 2020

Them That Follow may fall through the cracks of the cinema as the story does feel like we've heard this before, for those you are who enjoy a solid secret cult on screen this will be for you.

| Feb 1, 2020

This backwoods tale is packed with high drama and incident and feverish passion -- secrets are revealed, guns and axes come into play. Yet it doesn't feel like artificial melodrama; the atmosphere rings with authenticity.

| Jan 6, 2020

"Them That Follow" needed more bite, but instead its screenplay feels defanged.

| Original Score: C + | Nov 29, 2019

Though there are some excellent performances in Them That Follow, it's generally predictable and underwhelming

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2019

It may feature Olivia Colman, but if all the snakes don't have you seeking the exit, then what happens on a kitchen table will.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2019

While comprising a fine cast... this feature debut by the writer-director team of Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage never quite seems to fully catch fire...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2019

The snakes are there just to add grisly tension to a drab melodrama.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 25, 2019

The plot is soapy, but the film’s writing and directing team, Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage, treat the characters with dignity... and create a sense of gloom that’s intensely compelling.

| Nov 25, 2019

While there's a driving intensity that holds this film together, it's so serious that the earnestness often begins to feel somewhat dull.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 25, 2019

As a result, Them That Follow is a trifle ponderous, but rewards the audience by developing into an extremely watchable melodrama, with top-notch performances all round.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2019

So yes, Olivia knocks the socks off everything as per usual, but by the time this film turns from a mildly chilling thriller to a gory romance, I was already checking my watch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2019

demands our sympathy for the characters without giving us any reason to like them

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 22, 2019

A film about fundamental faith and its poisonous nature, Them That Follow is a much-needed change of pace from this loud summer movie season.

| Sep 12, 2019

It's a film that slithers forward slowly, but those who stick with it will be rewarded, thanks largely to a raft of strong performances and a powerful third act.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2019

It does grip you because of the inherent nature of the story itself.

| Aug 23, 2019

When it comes down to it, the film needed a bit more oomph to truly stand out, especially with a cast as talented as the one gathered for this and with a subject as ripe with potential.

| Aug 17, 2019