Suspense and tension aren’t strictly necessary to this kind of Lovecraftian horror, but even so, the film suffocates under the weight of its own portentousness.

| Feb 6, 2024

We're left with a dull, overlong nature walk with an experimental art film spliced into its center. That's something less than horrifying.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 1, 2020

Oblong and perhaps "above" traditional storytelling, but what it hammers home is the overwhelming chaos of our Universe. And it hammers that well.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2020

A pretentious, unfulfilling and ponderous thriller.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 6, 2020

Still, there's a lot to like about They Remain. Its uncompromising nature eschews cookie-cutter labels, and its slow, pastoral, hallucinogenic tone is reminiscent of a film like A Field In England.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2020

There are times in which the visuals and mood overpower the story, leading to a few plot-related questions that are never quite answered.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2019

...it eventually delivers on all the darkness it sets up, but the journey up to that moment is such a waste of a good idea and decent actors...

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Dec 25, 2018

They Remain has atmosphere in spades; unfortunately, there's remarkably little plot to go along with all the mood.

| Original Score: C | Dec 7, 2018

They Remain starts out in the realm of science, but it belongs in the subgenre of horror films... It is a very worthy addition to the category.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 28, 2018

What They Remain lacks in novelty it more than makes up for in poisonously paranoid atmosphere.

| Jul 31, 2018

This cleverly made thriller creeps up on the audience with an understated sense of horror.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 1, 2018

[The film] pitches its tent in a disorienting space between nature and cult(ure), as Sean Kirby's initially lyrical camerawork takes on an increasingly hallucinatory urgency, and Keith falls prey to paranoia delusion.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 23, 2018

The final sequence is not only surprisingly satisfying, but offers us an uncomfortable moment that resembles closure, while avoiding an overly clean denouement. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of this ending highlights the weakness that preceded it.

| Mar 26, 2018

They Remain, the first filmed take on [Laird Barron's] work, manages to replicate a gratifying amount of that distinctive vibe, infusing the story with large doses of free-form agoraphobic anxiety. It lingers.

| Mar 26, 2018

... manages some intermittent tension, bolstered by a pair of strong performances, yet there are too many sequences where nothing of consequence happens.

| Mar 9, 2018

"They Remain" does what it means to do. It makes the natural feel threateningly alien.

| Mar 8, 2018

While it runs a bit too long, the direction is impeccable, the acting brilliant, and the ending pays off the slow build with something explosive yet heady.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 5, 2018

They Remain offers little genuine action until the film's final minutes - hardly worth the wait for anyone who has sat through the film's first 90.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 4, 2018

A slow-burn psychological thriller like "They Remain" requires patience. It seems to be more about mood and paranoia than about plot or easy scare.

| Original Score: B | Mar 2, 2018

The whole story, such as it is, seems to exist on the level of metaphor, but even metaphors need some definition and weight to keep us interested.

| Mar 2, 2018