The Changeover

Name: The Changeover
Genre: Thriller
Released: February 22, 2019
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Benji Purchase, Claire Van Beek, Ella Edward, Erana James, Kate Harcourt

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Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: February 22, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Benji Purchase, Claire Van Beek, Ella Edward, Erana James, Kate Harcourt, Lucy Lawless, Melanie Lynskey, Nicholas Galitzine, Thomasin McKenzie, Timothy Spall

Summary: Sixteen year-old Laura Chant (Erana James) lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko (Benji Purchase) in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomesSixteen year-old Laura Chant (Erana James) lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko (Benji Purchase) in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit becomes ever younger. Laura discovers her true identity and the supernatural ability within her, and must harness it to save her brother's life. … Expand

Director: Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Feb 21, 2019

It's worth seeking out no matter how much trouble you have to go to, because it's special: assured but modest, full of surprises. It doesn't go the way you expect it to, and yet in retrospect each move seems inevitable, like the incremental fulfillment of a prophecy. Read full review

Noel Murray

Feb 21, 2019

Thanks to a focus on the setting and emotions of the story, by the time the life-or-death action kicks in, Harcourt and McKenzie have clearly delineated these characters and what they’re facing — bringing Mahy’s words to life. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Feb 21, 2019

Thanks to fine performances and a narrative that doesn’t hang about to admire itself, the movie goes down as easily as a love potion at a coven. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Feb 16, 2019

The Changeover is a moody, menacing thriller with a YA (Young Adult) heroine. Read full review

Keith Watson

Feb 21, 2019

It’s this carefully managed equilibrium between the inherent preposterousness of its mystical milieu and the convincing emotional reality of Laura’s journey that ultimately makes The Changeover, for all its muddled mythos, a lively and engaging excursion into an unusually naturalistic world of magic. Read full review

John DeFore

Feb 21, 2019

The deeper the script gets into how its version of witchcraft works, the less convincing it becomes. Uniformly solid performances and artful camera/sound work make the movie hard to dismiss out of hand, but the script doesn't sell its hokum as effectively as more mainstream supernatural soap operas. Read full review

The Playlist Warren Cantrell

Feb 24, 2019

An interesting if somewhat incomplete horror thriller with decent performances, “The Changeover” is nevertheless hampered by a script that doesn’t seem to know how to connect all its narrative dots. Read full review

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