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We Are What We Are Reviews
Mickle made a good movie, very American, coming out of a great Mexican script. [Full review in Spanish]
| Jul 18, 2023
Moody, tense, and delicately layered, when you boil it down to the bare essentials, this is still the story of an isolated, woodsy family eating folk.
| Original Score: B+ | Jul 8, 2020
A half-baked exercise that only becomes more strangely ridiculous as it tries to explain itself with some B cheapie writing flourishes.
| Aug 28, 2019
Successfully permeates the theater with gothic dread and a palpable sense of impending doom through its 100-minute running time, all the way to its shocking, satisfying end.
| Jul 31, 2019
More family drama than gore fest, Mickle's film is driven by atmosphere and mystique, more concerned with creeping you out than making you hurl.
| Original Score: 7.2/10 | Apr 11, 2019
Mickle's vision is distinct; it's a stark, lyrical picture, underscored by a sense of melancholic longing. In the grand Gothic tradition, the director finds beauty in the horrific...
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2019
Carefully conceals the cannibalism at its heart in favour of the examination of familial roles, rites of passage and ritualism.
| Feb 28, 2019
We Are What We Are is a solid low-budget horror film that is deeply creepy, partly because it's well-made and well-acted, and partly because it derives its chills from a mindset we loathe but recognize all too well from the real world.
| Original Score: B | Jan 25, 2019
What he has created is the perfect example of a film adapting another film's original concepts, but becoming in insular film onto itself.
| Aug 21, 2018
... a horror film by definition-an isolated family in rural America cloisters its teenage daughters in a religion/ritual that reaches back to their starving forefathers who turned to cannibalism to survive a harsh frontier-but a family drama at heart.
| Oct 28, 2016
A provocative film about the horrors we can find within the usual comforts of family and tradition.
| Sep 11, 2015
Another welcome entry in the ongoing revival of horror movies that rely on character and setting rather than shock and gore to chill audiences to the marrow.
| Jun 28, 2014
Remakes may get a lot of stick in Hollywood, as filmmakers can be accused of being somewhat lazy and uncreative in that regard.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2014
An ambitious (if somewhat uneven) slice of downbeat American gothic which interweaves grim melancholia with pointed satire, doomy portent and moments of gnawing revulsion.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2014
Some of the film is gruesome in the extreme but there is always lyricism and pathos alongside the bloodletting.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2014
Mickle and co-writer Nick Damici give themselves plenty of time to tease out their themes and ladle on the tension.
| Feb 28, 2014
Jim Mickle's savvy re-imagining of the 2010 Mexican art-house horror marks a quantum leap forward in maturity and style for the Stake Land director.
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2014
Who can resist a good cannibal movie?
| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2014
Another pointless remake.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2014