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SUNDANCE: ‘The Thing With Feathers’ Is A Vital All-Ages Grief Tale
The Thing With Feathers is adapted from the novel “Grief is the Thing With Feathers,” by Max Porter and takes on the ...
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The Thing With Feathers Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Goes All-In For This Treatise On Grief [SUNDANCE 2025]
A rain cloud. A shadow. A pit opening up into the earth. In "The Thing With Feathers," based on the 2015 novel "Grief is the ...
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From Sundance: ‘The Thing With Feathers’ Falls Prey to Its Overarching Metaphor
Although this premise might sound familiar, it isn’t “The Babadook” but “The Thing With Feathers,” adapted from a novella by Max Porter and starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch ...
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‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Fights His Dark Side In A Powerful Portrayal Of Grief – Sundance Film Festival
For all the artistry behind it, however, The Thing with Feathers will likely prove divisive; for survivors of trauma, it will likely be cathartic, but for others more fortunate, its pitch-perfect ...
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Benedict Cumberbatch on ‘The Thing With Feathers,’ Being an Advocate: Society Has “a Very Easy Time Sidelining” Those in Need
Cumberbatch got candid about grief, toxic masculinity and being an advocate in Berlin for the press conference of Dylan Southern's 'The Thing With Feathers.' By Lily Ford Benedict Cumberbatch is ...
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‘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 ...
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‘The Thing with Feathers’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays a Widowed Father in a Movie That’s Overly Literal About Turning Grief into — Yes — an Oversize Crow
At one point in “The Thing with Feathers,” Cumberbatch says that he relied on his wife for…everything. For a while, I had hopes that the movie, with a lacerating intimacy, would dramatize ...
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The Thing with Feathers Review
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 ...
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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 thriller stars Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch as a father ...
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‘The Thing with Feathers’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays a Widowed Father in a Movie That’s Overly Literal About Turning Grief into — Yes — an Oversize Crow
In “The Thing with Feathers,” Benedict Cumberbatch plays a London creator of graphic novels who, quite suddenly, finds himself a widower (his beloved wife collapsed on the kitchen floor and died).
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The Thing with Feathers
A young father (Benedict Cumberbatch) of two boys suspects he is being stalked by a malevolent creature after the sudden death of his wife in The Thing with Feathers. The Premieres section film is the ...