Crow never becomes a gripping character; he's too sternly abstract, too hectoring, too much of a visual effect in search of a personality.

Grief is a complex emotion, and the visceral nature of it all can make you feel monstrous. The Thing With Feathers is adapted from the novel “Grief is the Thing With Feathers,” by Max Porter and takes ...

Not yet rated. PARK CITY, Utah — Another title for “The Thing With Feathers,” which premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, could be “The Giant Talking Crow.” Because ...

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 ...

With some occasional interference from the outside world, this brutal sparring between Dad and Crow is pretty much the core of The Thing with Feathers, a yin-and-yang thing that Southern ...

humanoid crow. (The thing with feathers in the Emily Dickinson-indebted title of the source material.) Embodied by Eric Lampaert and voiced by David Thewlis, the immaculately designed creature ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Thewlis clearly relishes dialing up the nastiness in Crow’s exchanges with “Sad Dad,” which ... Considering the delicacy of its subject matter, The Thing With Feathers is strangely distancing.

In The Thing with Feathers, a widower and father of two suspects he is being stalked by a crow-like figure. The adaptation of Max Porter’s book of the same name stars Benedict Cumberbatch and is the ...