![]() ![]() ![]() Spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, and set in small towns in Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All The Time chronicles a couple of generations of disparate characters who will find themselves intermittently touching each other’s lives. Tonally, the picture may remind viewers of similar meditations on violence such as No Country For Old Men, but the downbeat tone and expected mixed critical reaction should limit the potential audience. Streaming on the service from September 16, the film will benefit from a starry cast that includes Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson. An adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s 2011 novel, Campos’ grim Netflix thriller is a cavalcade of bad behaviour disguised as flinty commentary on toxic masculinity and might-makes-right morality.Īn assortment of wretched human beings who aren’t particularly compelling. Christine director Antonio Campos introduces us to a world in which murder, violence, and suicide are commonplace, but he fails to find much new to say about this bleak thematic terrain. Early in The Devil All The Time, a father warns his boy that “there’s a lot of no-good sons of bitches out there.” That’s certainly true of the characters who populate this pitiless, somewhat monotonous study of the darkness that lurks in the hearts of men. ![]()
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