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Sep 28, 2018 · Adapting a book of the same name by William Giraldi, regular Saulnier collaborator Macon Blair (also the star of “Blue Ruin”) transports viewers to the bleak, snow-covered landscape of Alaska. From the beginning, the setting of “Hold the Dark” is unforgiving, terrifying.
Hold the Dark's unsettling aesthetic offers more of what filmgoers expect from director Jeremy Saulnier - and is often enough to prop up shaky narrative underpinnings. Read Critics Reviews
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The basic premise of Jeremy Saulnier's adaptation of Hold the Dark takes place in Alaska where wolf expert Russell Core has arrived to investigate the disappearance of a child claimed by his mother to have been taken from the very animal Core studies.
Sep 26, 2018 · 2h 5m. By Manohla Dargis. Sept. 26, 2018. Something weird this way comes, or so it seems in the shadowy, overly murky “Hold the Dark.” There are the wolves prowling in that gloom that may be...
Hold the Dark Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Vadim Rizov Filmmaker Magazine. Nearly two hours long and smothered in portent, this is either just no fun...
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Sep 27, 2018 · 'Hold the Dark' turns an adaptation of an Arctic Noir novel into something brutal, bloody, bleak and Freudian as hell. Read our review.
With Beckam Crawford, Riley Keough, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Tayles. After the deaths of three children suspected to be killed by wolves, writer Russell Core is hired by the mother of a missing six-year-old boy to track down and locate her son in the Alaskan wilderness.
Sep 13, 2018 · “Hold the Dark” is unflinchingly violent, at times almost excessively so, and yet its starkest act of savagery occurs in the first few minutes, and is all the more haunting for its ambiguity.
Sep 12, 2018 · ‘Hold the Dark’ Review: Jeffrey Wright Battles Wolves and Demons of the Alaskan Wilderness in Jeremy Saulnier’s Unpredictable Survival Saga — TIFF. The "Green Room" director's eerie...
Hold the Dark is a perfectly adequate film made by an especially talented director, Jeremy Saulnier. Alternately pulse-racing and somnambulant, it’s a thriller that starts strong before running out of gas.
