There is yet another intangible, but critical, element to add: faith. Is all this hope and love ... "The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft." Amy Lockard has a Master's ...

Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed ...

The Thing with Feathers' director Dylan Southern and star Benedict Cumberbatch talk about their Sundance premiere about a ...

The Thing with Feathers” is exploring grief in its most shadowy stages. Screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the ...

Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed father and the menacing giant crow that attaches itself to his sorrow. By David Rooney Chief ...

Horror films aren’t exactly known for their subtlety, but The Thing With Feathers has no subtlety in sight. On paper, The ...

For all the artistry behind it, however, The Thing with Feathers will likely prove divisive; for survivors of trauma, it will likely be cathartic, but for others more fortunate, its pitch-perfect ...

Benedict Cumberbatch gives it his all in The Thing with Feathers, but the horror movie lives up to neither his performance, ...

This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundnace Film Festival. A horror movie taking place in the shadow of its central metaphor, The Thing with Feathers adapts a poetic novella steeped ...