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.

Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, he is an artist of sorts; some people call his work “comic books,” others call them “graphic novels,” a term he thinks is “wanky.” His output is alluded to in the ...

Benedict Cumberbatch's The Thing With Feathers is an all-ages horror story about grief that is vital for young audiences. The ...

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Another title for “The Thing With Feathers,” which premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, could be “The Giant Talking Crow.” ...

Benedict Cumberbatch gives it his all in The Thing with Feathers, but the horror movie lives up to neither his performance, nor its own heavy-handed metaphor of a bullying crow-creature ...

Although this premise might sound familiar, it isn’t “The Babadook” but “The Thing With Feathers,” adapted from a novella by Max Porter and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch ...

Benedict Cumberbatch’s grief is the thing with feathers. The actor stars as a father who is mourning the death of his wife in Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, Dylan Southern’s upcoming film a ...

“The Thing with Feathers” is exploring grief in its most shadowy stages. Screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the thriller stars Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch as a father ...

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 ...

A happy family home should not be lit like a Vermeer ... this brutal sparring between Dad and Crow is pretty much the core of The Thing with Feathers, a yin-and-yang thing that Southern ...