Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed to fail. Metaphors are a good way to bolster a story, but they ...

Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed ... its central metaphor — sorrow made tangible in the form of a crow that moves in ...

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 ...

Despite a committed central performance by Benedict Cumberbatch, 'The Thing With Feathers' can't do justice to Max Porter's ...

Dir/scr: Dylan Southern. UK. 2025. 98 mins. ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson; ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ is a flighty, wonderful novella by Max Porter ...

Cumberbatch got candid about grief, toxic masculinity and being an advocate in Berlin for the press conference of Dylan ...

FORT FRANCES – Emily Dickinson wrote that “hope is the thing with feathers.” In the border town of Fort Frances, HOPE is now the place with short-term accommodations for persons experiencing ...

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 ... more literal medium of film, its ...

Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid is a surprisingly gritty study of Chinese lives in the margins – Berlin Film Festival ...

Crossingham said. “The whole thing with Feathers, we hope that everyone thinks he’s going to the museum, but he’s not. He’s going to Wallace’s house. Building that in with subtle ...

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 ...