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- 2022
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 43 m
- 2022
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 43 m
- 2022
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 43 m
- 2022
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 43 m
Shepherd
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Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
62
25% Positive
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1 Review
75% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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With Shepherd, the Welsh writer and director Russell Owen shows us how to accrue a great deal of atmosphere with very little fuss.
While the plot here is thin (and slow-paced, and oppressively grim), Owen has a remarkable facility for generating atmosphere. He’s made a film where one man’s internal strife has been effectively externalized as an inescapable, picturesque purgatory.
Ratcheting up the conflict and confusion becomes counter-intuitive, the escalation of violence and brutality arriving without clear motive. I can’t even decide for myself what’s happening—there’s nothing but smoke to grab. Owen stripped away the film’s own agency.
Shepherd is more of a bandwagon-jumping exercise in arthouse horror films about grief than a truly bone-chilling example of one.
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