Vanity Fair September 16, 2020 Most of The Devil All the Time is classist cruelty… Intricately crafted as it is, Campos’s film is downright simple. It’s sloppy pulp p...
America Magazine September 17, 2020 If you’re attracted by the idea of a film that probes the hair’s breadth between the ritual and the spiritual, the devotional and...
New York Times September 16, 2020 There is little sense that the people in this world do anything but suffer or cause others to suffer in between working, church going and occasiona...
Chicago Sun-Times September 11, 2020 Once all the pieces are in place and we see the big picture, we’re left with admiration for director/co-writer Antonio Campos' ability to wea...
[Campos'] greatest feat may be that he was able to wrangle a story as ripe and unwieldy as Devil… toeing a tricky line between art-house atmos...
New York Post September 17, 2020 Holland, who has been so refreshing as Spider-Man, gets his first opportunity to prove he can act without the help of $150 million of webs and...
Empire Magazine September 11, 2020 A mixed bag of bones and bodies, whose Southern Gothic atmosphere and superb performances – from Holland especially – are let down by the...
RogerEbert.com September 16, 2020 Give me a movie that bites off more than it can chew any time over one that doesn’t bite at all.
film.avclub.com September 15, 2020 [W]hat’s haunting about The Devil All The Time-and, ultimately even a little hopeful-is this idea that there’s a world beyond this...
Slant Magazine September 14, 2020 The one form of suspense that The Devil All the Time authentically generates is curiosity as to what its general point might be.
Bloody Disgusting September 11, 2020 It is a hard-boiled, blood-soaked story full of unsettled mood and unrelenting dread, with an impressive cast. That the runtime zips by and le...
The Guardian September 13, 2020 Campos takes another significant step up with this sprawling, sinewy epic, broodingly shot on 35mm by versatile cinematographer Lol Crawley with su...
Wall Street Journal September 17, 2020 Mr. Campos and his superb cast confer such authority on the whole thing that there’s no choice but to follow the film’s three time-hopp...
indieWire September 11, 2020 A violent but soulless meditation on faith taken to harrowing extremes, "The Devil All the Time" hurtles toward a constantly-hinted-at awful e...
Polygon September 17, 2020 For a while, Antonio Campos' The Devil All the Time casts an effective spell… But the longer the film wears on, the thinner that spell becomes.
Irish Times September 23, 2020 Don’t come for sociology. Come for top actors enjoying a weekend off the leash.
Globe and Mail September 18, 2020 Best to bury this Devil in an unmarked grave.
Chicago Reader October 7, 2020 There are instances of heart and significance scattered throughout the film, but it too often gives into its wandering nature and stops itself from...
Los Angeles Times September 16, 2020 You can reject the conclusions of Campos' movie, particularly its unrelenting pileup of dead bodies, and still take pleasure in its atmospheric sur...
Chicago Tribune September 11, 2020 It’s worth seeing for an intriguingly cast ensemble, authenticating the milieu as much as possible.
Campos has made a shattering portrait of religion and violence, a knotty, expressive work that bores deep into the soul of America.
theplaylist.net September 11, 2020 Like so many characters in this glum, shaggy ramble of a film, director Antonio Campos gets lost in the woods.
ReelViews September 23, 2020 Engrossing but conventional – a well-told story whose evocative setting and vivid performances combine to produce a grim and lurid tableau.
scpr.org September 19, 2020 The characters are paper-thin, the plot is super predictable, and despite its star-studded cast… only Robert Pattinson seems like he’s having...
Newsday September 21, 2020 To watch it is to suffer right along with its miserable characters, desperate for some ray of hope or sunshine to peek through the heavy portents o...
Rolling Stone October 23, 2020 The Devil All the Time has the pretensions of a mythopoetic story that’s chipping away at a community’s dark underbelly. But here the m...
There’s only so much you can take of an actor loudly cursing at the skies before it tips over from tragic to hilarious, particularly when he...
Independent September 25, 2020 When The Devil All the Time does plunge into the moral abyss, it’s intoxicating – if only it did it more often.
CNN.com September 17, 2020 The casting alone should spur interest in The Devil All the Time, but can’t make the movie feel like less of a slog.
TIME Magazine September 17, 2020 Watching it is like spending two hours and change on a hard church pew, with nothing to show but a few splinters. Deliver us from evil-pl...
Financial Times September 16, 2020 These characters aren’t circus acts – just desperate messes, only human like the rest of us. Amid the American guignol, Campos finds act...
The Guardian September 16, 2020 There is something weirdly pointless about it all, and there is a kind of tonal gap where, in another kind of film, the humour might go ...
Daily Telegraph November 22, 2020 Fiendishly gripping…
An enthralling and often disturbing exposé of the dark side of a period of history we see far too often sanitised for easy consumption.
Vulture September 19, 2020 We never really get to know any of these characters aside from their villainy and/or victimhood. They’re paper fish in a cardboard barrel.
Variety September 11, 2020 Campos has such reverence for the novel that he has illustrated it more than he’s dramatized it.
Hollywood Reporter September 11, 2020 Though its structure doesn’t always work to maximum effect, the grim picture gets more involving as it goes and benefits from a hell of ...
Little White Lies September 11, 2020 You’re better off sticking to the novel.
Times (UK) September 12, 2020 The results, alas, although thematically consistent (God + Americans=mass psychosis), tend to be tawdry, repetitive and unmistakably shallow.
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