The Feast
IFC Midnight | Release Date: November 19, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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10
Mixed:
8
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The PlaylistAndrew CrumpNov 22, 2021
There’s much to like about his work here. Just skip the canapes. Read full review
90
PolygonRoxana HadadiNov 19, 2021
By probing at the ways people are on their best behavior while inherently personifying the worst effects of capitalism and greed, and knowing when to abandon modesty for brutality, Jones and Williams turn The Feast into one of the year’s most smartly conceived, plainly effective horrors. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyAug 19, 2022
Pitched somewhere between folk horror, ecological revenge and scathing class critique, The Feast is at its best during the elegantly atmospheric, nervy first hour, as cinematographer Bjørn Ståle Bratberg picks out ominous details. Read full review
80
IGNKristy PuchkoAug 26, 2021
Director Lee Haven Jones elevates this ripe premise with a masterful use of color and a garnish of gore. This makes for a feast of the eyes, bursting with visuals gorgeous and gruesome. Tied together with a surreal tone and topped off with a generous sprinkling of carnage, The Feast serves up a heady and haunting experience that sticks to your ribs and rattles your nerves. Read full review
75
The Film StageChristian GallichioNov 18, 2021
Not all choices that Williams and Jones make pay off—including a late-act decision to explicitly spell out the reasons Cadi is seeking revenge—but The Feast is a compelling addition to the burgeoning genre of eco-horror, one of the more gruesome, nasty films in recent memory. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNov 19, 2021
The film takes its cues from Elwy’s remarkable performance as Cadi, who is at once seductive and terrifying. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichNov 18, 2021
Despite its refined palate and dashes of local flavor, The Feast remains empty calories — haunting only for how it seems to admit as much in the very last shot. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comNick AllenNov 22, 2021
There are endless horror movies out there in which a slow burn seems like it's just killing time before it's actually time to kill. But "The Feast" does well with that dread—it's the main course that proves to be the rip-off, however gory, indulgent, and horror-ready it is. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassNov 16, 2021
The Feast makes a stab at drawing out modern, very real anxieties around wealth disparity and ecological devastation without falling back on genre tropes, asking us to consider how the land itself may come to feast on the rich. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 9, 2021
“Tone” is the triumph of the Welsh thriller The Feast. Tone — in its lonely, remote setting, its chilly, unsettling characters and the deeply unpleasant things that transpire — is everything. Read full review
60
The GuardianLeslie FelperinAug 25, 2022
Jones skilfully cranks up the creepiness a notch at a time with an ominous soundtrack and stylish lighting, until the dial is way past 11 and into grand guignol territory by the end. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 25, 2022
The Feast requires a degree of commitment; it avoids jump scares in favour of a long, slow build of tension – so slow that at times the characters appear to be in the grip of a kind of paralysis – that pays off with an explosively grisly final act. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 23, 2022
Shot entirely in Welsh, this pristine debut from Lee Haven Jones has a methodical chill to it, laying steady groundwork for a buffet of grotesqueries. It’s horror-satire, with its eye on environmental plundering, and a demonic revenge to exact. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentAug 19, 2022
A slow-burn, sluggishly surreal horror, The Feast takes its time getting to the point — but the bloody final act is something to really sink your teeth into. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid HughesAug 18, 2022
Capably directed by debut filmmaker Lee Haven Jones, The Feast won’t challenge Midsommar for the modern folk-horror crown. Like a Welshophone episode of Inside No.9 stretched to feature length, it’s more of a sinister little snack than a full-blown feast. Read full review
60
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerNov 17, 2021
Jones suffuses slow-burn tension, disturbing visual elements and murky folk horror into a film that’s foundation rests on creeping uncertainties—making The Feast pleasantly obscure and occasionally quite upsetting. Read full review
50
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiNov 19, 2021
The first two courses of this three-course meal were on the bland side. The third course is exciting, but by that point our appetite has waned, our interest in the company has dissipated, and we’re pretty much ready to go home. Read full review
40
Little White LiesMarina AshiotiAug 31, 2022
Arbitrary continuity errors, heavy-handed symbolism, an agonisingly laborious pace and shallow characterisation leave a sour taste in the mouth, especially as the payoff is not gruesome enough to justify the means that get us there. Read full review
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