You Won’t Be Alone

A poetic glimpse at generational trauma.

Some movies you love from the first minute of the first reel. For others, it can take a little longer. You Won’t Be Alone falls in the latter...

Rather than weak imitation, You Won’t Be Alone is a bold and compelling – and reverent – repurposing of Malick’s technique, turning...

An ambitious, sometimes powerful, often murkily pretentious first feature from Australian writer-director Goran Stolevski, shot in the mountains of...

You Won’t Be Alone is an organic meditation, if not a bit too slow, on how we craft identity as human beings, and how our immediate surr...

A film that begins with a shaky footing but grows more convincing each time its subject takes a challenging new step…

[An] uncategorizable and emotionally gutting debut…

Part gothic folk tale and part lyrical meditation on the beauty of nature, "You Won’t Be Alone" is like "The Witch" by way of Terrence M...

Drawing on his Macedonian roots, director Goran Stolevski delivers a truly unique feature debut: an erotically charged, at times brutish quest...

The scary story uses succinct dialogue, a serene setting, and a striking score to create a poetic take on life, death, and the in-between.

You Won’t Be Alone enchants in its novel perspective and in its sharp-shifting protagonist’s unquenchable curiosity. The witch, once so set in ster...

Stolevski fearlessly treads his own path into the woods, making the graceful tragic majesty of You Wont Be Alone difficult to resist and, more impo...

Everything Everywhere All At Once has all the spastic energy, phallocentric humour and visual wit directors the Daniels brought to the Turn Down Fo...

A bloody – and bloody good – vampire tale that squeezes quite a few new twists out of fundamentally familiar material.

You Wont Be Alone announces the arrival of a fierce new genre talent, an inventive stylist and an unapologetic interrogator of mankind with so...

The movie… gets deeper and more emotional as it goes, becoming a metaphor for restless empathy and non-binary points of view.

Roher turns the film into a cerebral John le Carre-like thriller…

It’s a reclamation of fairy tales, and a feminist take on witchcraft fears, shot in the style of Terrence Malick—well, if he were both Ma...

Stolevski, in a film that feels less like a debut and more a late-stage magnum opus, has found an ingenious vessel to make profound observatio...

Throughout You Won’t Be Alone, writer-director Goran Stolevski rejects the slickness that defines so-called elevated horror.

The final act comes with perhaps too many surprises on the menu, but the film is so much fun that I didn’t mind the extra courses.

However unsettling, it’s a film that knows what it’s doing.

You Won’t Be Alone reframes life and its stages through the lens of a witch, creating a sensory experience that’s artful, lan...

"You Won’t Be Alone" is certainly worthwhile for transporting viewers, and it invites multiple readings. Stolevski delivers on his promise to...

Theres a dizzying intensity to You Wont Be Alone that is far too rare in cinema, a sensation that almost needs to be mourned once it starts we...

After Yang moves slowly and quietly and then comes in like a tidal wave, exploring grief and love and memory with aching poignance.

Moves so hypnotically between dream and nightmare, horror and fairy tale that, once bound by its spell, you won’t want to be freed.

A shockingly great horror movie that cleverly differentiates itself from umpteen other productions involving witches and forests visited by the dam...

It is startling, and sometimes disturbing, but hits a place that is intensely human--bittersweet and bloody and beautiful at once, and unlike...

Impressionistic, unconventional and often downright weird, it’s most of all an exploration of humanity – what that means and how it is achieved.