The Devil All the Time
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): September 16, 2020 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
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17
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19
Negative:
3
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30
Vanity FairRichard LawsonSep 17, 2020
Intricately crafted as it is, Campos’s film is downright simple. It’s sloppy pulp packaged as prestige, which makes the meanness of its condescending gaze that much meaner. Read full review
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TimeStephanie ZacharekSep 17, 2020
The Devil All the Time is just a pileup of awful people doing terrible things, for no reason other than to prove how wretched humans can be. The template is pure Southern Gothic, but without the subtlety of top-drawer practitioners of the genre, like Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. Read full review
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Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 14, 2020
Every moment in The Devil All the Time is meant to be a galvanic, preachifying high point, and so the characters aren’t allowed to reveal themselves apart from the dictates of the plot. One can scarcely imagine a duller lot of sacrificial lambs. Read full review
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