The Thing With Feathers Almost Wastes a Great Benedict Cumberbatch Performance
The actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.
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From Sundance: ‘The Thing With Feathers’ Falls Prey to Its Overarching Metaphor
Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed ...
The Thing with Feathers Review
Benedict Cumberbatch feels out of place in a horror movie that asks “What if grief were an annoying bird creature?” ...
The Hollywood Reporter19d
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: A Go-for-Broke Benedict Cumberbatch Unravels in a Movie Stuck Awkwardly Between Horror and Psychodrama
Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed ... a volume written by the poet Ted Hughes after three inactive years that followed the ...
New York Post18d
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Sundance review: Benedict Cumberbatch talks to a giant crow in bizarre misfire
Running time: 104 minutes. 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 ...
Daily Bruin18d
Sundance 2025 Q&A: ‘The Thing with Feathers’ adapts Max Porter’s novella on grief to the big screen
“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 ...
The Thing with Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch gives it his all in The Thing with Feathers, but the horror movie lives up to neither his performance, ...