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  • 2022
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Two women's desperately try to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of "freedom" in the isolated desert campus called "The Aviary", Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenzo Izzo) join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can't shake the feeling that they a...

Directed By: Chris Cullari, Jennifer Raite

  • 2022
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2022
  • R
  • Saban Films
  • 1 h 36 m

The Aviary

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Two women's desperately try to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of "freedom" in the isolated desert campus called "The Aviary", Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenzo Izzo) join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can't shake the feeling that they a...

Directed By: Chris Cullari, Jennifer Raite

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
57% Positive
4 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
29% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
57
57% Positive
4 Reviews
14% Mixed
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29% Negative
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90
May 5, 2022
The Aviary is a stunning work of art about how people get sucked into something offering a glimmer of light and how that light becomes distorted.
By Bobby LePire FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 29, 2022
An excellent cast and some skillful direction goes a long way toward making “The Aviary” feel genuinely revealing.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 29, 2022
Writer-directors Chris Cullari and Jennifer Raite give us two unreliable narrators to follow on a similar, intertwined path to personal, earth-shattering discovery in The Aviary—and the results make for a visually striking, sonically spooky, and deeply unnerving picture.
By Todd Gilchrist FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 29, 2022
I wouldn’t say Cullari and Raite necessarily give us anything we haven’t already experienced with the genre or themes, but they utilize them with deft hands to keep us invested in the characters and, by extension, the mystery connecting them.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 28, 2022
The Aviary, a modest mindf*ck of a thriller about two young women fleeing a cult in the New Mexican desert, goes round and round and round in a circle like a snake swallowing itself. A beguiling metaphor, but by the end, you’re left with a self-cannibalized movie.
By Steve Davis FULL REVIEW
38
Apr 29, 2022
The Aviary experiences a drop in quality during its attempts to goose the audience, but its two lead performances remain consistent.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
38
Apr 25, 2022
The things that should make it work are here, most of them anyway. The fact that it doesn’t draw you in or deliver an ending with impact doesn’t mean it couldn’t have.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Catchlight Studios, Pacesetter Productions, Stagecoach Entertainment, The Forest Road Company
Release Date Apr 29, 2022
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
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• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination

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