The Aviary

Name: The Aviary
Genre: Thriller
Released: April 29, 2022
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Chris Messina, Lorenza Izzo, Malin Åkerman, Sandrine Holt

2022

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Saban Films | Release Date: April 29, 2022 | R

Starring: Chris Messina, Lorenza Izzo, Malin Åkerman, Sandrine Holt

Summary: Two women's desperately try to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of "freedom" in the isolated desert campus called "The Aviary", Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenzo Izzo) join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can't shake the feeling that they areTwo women's desperately try to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of "freedom" in the isolated desert campus called "The Aviary", Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenzo Izzo) join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can't shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult's leader, Seth (Chris Messina), a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?

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Director: Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 96 min

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Bobby LePire

May 5, 2022

The Aviary is a stunning work of art about how people get sucked into something offering a glimmer of light and how that light becomes distorted. Read full review

Noel Murray

Apr 29, 2022

An excellent cast and some skillful direction goes a long way toward making “The Aviary” feel genuinely revealing. Read full review

Todd Gilchrist

Apr 29, 2022

Writer-directors Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite give us two unreliable narrators to follow on a similar, intertwined path to personal, earth-shattering discovery in The Aviary—and the results make for a visually striking, sonically spooky, and deeply unnerving picture. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Apr 29, 2022

I wouldn’t say Cullari and Raite necessarily give us anything we haven’t already experienced with the genre or themes, but they utilize them with deft hands to keep us invested in the characters and, by extension, the mystery connecting them. Read full review

Steve Davis

Apr 28, 2022

The Aviary, a modest mindf*ck of a thriller about two young women fleeing a cult in the New Mexican desert, goes round and round and round in a circle like a snake swallowing itself. A beguiling metaphor, but by the end, you’re left with a self-cannibalized movie. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Apr 25, 2022

The things that should make it work are here, most of them anyway. The fact that it doesn’t draw you in or deliver an ending with impact doesn’t mean it couldn’t have. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Apr 29, 2022

The Aviary experiences a drop in quality during its attempts to goose the audience, but its two lead performances remain consistent. Read full review

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