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Sep 15, 2020 · The Devil All The Time | MOVIE REVIEW - YouTube. Aggressive Comix. 129K subscribers. Subscribed. 225. 4.6K views 3 years ago #TheDevilAllTheTime. Watch the trailer for 'The Devil All The...
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Some people are just born to be buried. In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters — an unholy preacher (Robert Pattinson), twi...
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The Devil All the Time's descent into darkness can be harrowing to the point of punishment, but it's offset by strong work from a stellar cast. Read Critics Reviews
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- Antonio Campos
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- Robert Pattinson
The Devil All the Time: Directed by Antonio Campos. With Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland, Banks Repeta, Emilio Subercaseaux Campos. Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and brutality.
- Antonio Campos
- 3 min
- Tom Holland has his darkest role to date in this grim period piece.
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By Robert Daniels
Updated: Oct 23, 2020 5:53 pm
Posted: Sep 14, 2020 10:00 pm
Rarely is a group of A-list actors so willing to be vicious like the ensemble in The Devil All the Time. Set between two secluded towns -- the aptly named Knockemstiff, Ohio, and Coal Creek, West Virginia -- Antonio Campos’ film (his fifth feature on a string of critically praised indies) spins a yarn about zealotry during the late 1950’s. Adapted from Donald Ray Pollock’s novel of the same title, a wry omniscient narrator (Pollock, himself) strings together the serendipitous The Devil All the Time. But amid the death and the poverty presented on screen, his matter of fact delivery often belies the film’s cruel irony.
The non-linear narrative, which explores the violent vestiges of religious iconography, finds Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgård) on the Solomon Islands during World War II. It’s here, he discovers a bloodied, fly-infested serviceman crucified. The image changes the once godly soldier to religiously apathetic, but more importantly, makes apparent how closely brutality and sacrifice — exemplified through the image of Jesus tortured on the cross — align. When Willard returns from the war, he meets the love of his life Charlotte (Haley Bennett). Their courtship, which witnesses Willard’s non-secular revival, twirls another thread: Faith unhealthily filling the hole that loss leaves.
Because after the pair marry, they produce a son named Arvin, only to have a tragedy befall them. To avoid the inevitable, Willard resorts to God, and with his son Arvin fervently prays for divine intervention. His situation becomes so bleak he takes an unthinkable action, which results in a haunting animal death. Skarsgård is unflinching in his ferocity, and his Appalachian accent suggests a man never unwound. He sets the tone early for a film whose most joyful moment is a young Arvin citing his father beating two poachers to a bloody pulp as his happiest memory with his dad.
The Devil All the Time is made purposely provocative by Antonio Campos imbuing an unrelenting gruesomeness into every frame. It’s a film unbothered by comfort. Rather Campos thrusts the audience into faith’s excesses without a moment to breathe. The talented ensemble — sometimes underutilized in this bleak film — follows his command undaunted. Bill...
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Check out the trailer for The Devil All the Time, a psychological thriller based on the novel of the same name starring Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland.
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Sep 14, 2020 · “The Devil All the Time” begins streaming on Netflix September 16. Watch IndieWire’s exclusive Tom Holland featurette in the video below.
