is an adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novel “Grief is the Thing with Feathers.” And a mistake. The source material explains the underlying issue. A menacing Big Bird, an unabashedly ...

The specter of that brutally effective 2014 shocker proves inescapable for writer-director Dylan Southern in The Thing With Feathers ... The talking bird is played by Eric Lampaert and voiced ...

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 ...

For all the artistry behind it, however, The Thing with Feathers will likely prove divisive ... somber words accompany the images of black-feathered birds (“Sad Dad,” “She’s gone ...

“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 ...

Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed ... presence that towers over Dad. The talking bird is played by Eric Lampaert and voiced ...

The specter of that brutally effective 2014 shocker proves inescapable for writer-director Dylan Southern in The Thing With Feathers, right down to a malevolent ... disheveled presence that towers ...