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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 ...
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The Thing With Feathers Review: Benedict Cumberbatch’s Layered Performance Outshines The Weak Horror Elements Of Dismal Adaptation
Southern’s creative style and direction to manifest grief onscreen interconnects with the horror genre, it's just not ...
‘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 father and the menacing ...
How the Who inspired a key scene in Benedict Cumberbatch's new movie,
In Benedict Cumberbatch's new film, 'The Thing With Feathers,' a key tableau draws direct inspiration from the album cover ...
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Fights His Dark Side In A Powerful Portrayal Of Grief – Sundance Film Festival
Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, he is an artist of sorts; some people call his work “comic books,” others call them “graphic ...
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?” ...
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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 ...
Benedict Cumberbatch: Actors Are ‘Really F—ing Weird Creatures. We Want to Be in Extreme Situations Sometimes to Tell a Real Story’
Benedict Cumberbatch joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance to discuss playing the extreme grief of his ...