The Other Lamb

Pretty scenery and everything, but the endless staring and bleeding gets daunting at about the 40 minute mark, only to finally be capped off by the ever fashionably grandstanding resolution. Safe, sheepish choices disguised as brave revolutionism.

Slow burn with A24 horror vibes.

Atmospheric, with tremendous visuals and a decidedly sinister overtone. Some good performances from the primary cast members, with Selah and the Shepherd particularly worthy of note. There's no doubting its message, which is delivered with all the subtlety of an 18 wheeler crashing into a gorge, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. There is too little character development to be completely successful, and its abrupt ending will leave some viewers unsatisfied, as will several tangential plot points that are meant to be profound, but instead simply wander away without resolution or meaning. Nonetheless, there's a lot here for genre fans.

A movie that could have been so much better if the pacing wasn't so awful.

This is probably a good film, but all the symbolism is lost on me. Beautiful country where this was shot, I'll give it that. And the acting was top notch. Plot, meh, idk, it was ok. Raffey Cassidy plays the protagonist and is on a bit of a roll with this her 4th movie in a row with good reviews (Allied, The Killing of a Scared Deer, Vox Lux). Michiel Huisman plays the creepy Shepherd and does a fine job being creepy. The supporting cast was not anything to write home about but didn't ruin the movie either. I can't really recommend to the masses but if you are a movie buff it's worth the watch.

This is an example of a great story with a lot of potential to fly high but never took off and ended up landing disastrously.

I'm not a horror fan, just on a roll of watching film by Australian writers. I did really enjoy this one though - if you're a fan of cult movies you'll like this.

Beautifully shot but far too slow and ultimately simplistic in its themes. Men bad, women good, etc.

This was weird but I mostly liked it. It's basically like The Witch meets Midsommar but I liked it a lot more than either of those which I'm sure is a wildly unpopular opinion!

An unapologetically dull waste of time. Roughly 5 minutes worth of plot (if it could be called a plot) stretched out over 90 minutes. This film strikes me as the result of someone having had The Handmaid's Tale described to them by someone else with a dirty sock stuffed in their mouth, shouting the plot from the next room, and the writer thinking "I guess I'll make that?".