God's Creatures

Name: God's Creatures
Genre: Drama
Released: September 30, 2022
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Andrew Bennett, Barry Barnes, Brendan McCormack, Declan Conlon

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A24 | Release Date: September 30, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Aisling Franciosi, Andrew Bennett, Barry Barnes, Brendan McCormack, Declan Conlon, Emily Watson, Isabelle Connolly, John Burke, Marion O'Dwyer, Paul Mescal, Steve Gunn, Toni O'Rourke

Summary: In a windswept fishing village, a mother (Emily Watson) is torn between protecting her beloved son (Paul Mescal) and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community in this tense, sweepingly emotional epic.

Director: Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Tom Duggins

Mar 28, 2023

A film that wields its simple premise with devastating impact. Read full review

Josh Larsen

Oct 2, 2022

Watson is reliably sturdy in the lead role—you can see her panicked conscience in her eyes—but it’s Franciosi who grabs the film by its shoulders and turns it into a searing, singular experience. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Mar 22, 2023

God’s Creatures doesn’t quite manage its daring blend of maritime realism and Greek catastrophe. The huge final gesture feels just a little too heightened for this otherwise everyday world. The effort was, however, worth making. A bitter, unforgiving entertainment. Read full review

Guy Lodge

May 28, 2022

The film’s formal flourishes are modest, centering the actors ahead of all else. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Sep 30, 2022

God’s Creatures is a story about women doing the best they can by one another in a place where the odds are stacked against them. It’s a chilly film but not a heartless one; sometimes the nature of forgiveness is captured best in a small sliver of light. Read full review

Tara Bennett

Sep 27, 2022

God’s Creatures explores generational family gender dynamics in an extremely slow-burn way, but it has plenty of rewards for patient viewers. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Odie Henderson

Sep 30, 2022

God’s Creatures is yet another movie about a mother realizing too slowly that her son may be a dangerous sociopath. Screenwriter Shane Crowley’s thin characterizations do little to make this tired trope worth revisiting, instead opting to shroud the film in mystery regarding its central crime. Read full review

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mishym

Oct 16, 2022

Emily Watson is a masterclass and Paul Mescal holds his own. Not a lot happens in this film. It is very slow and brooding but it holds your interest.

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Voodoo123

Dec 11, 2022

Slow paced drama with a decent cast and cinematography. There are few suprises within the plot and a few logic leaps to get past, but if the mood serves then dry grit drama is here and ready for you on the wind swept shores of a small Irish village!

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JLuis_001

Jan 10, 2023

The plot of God’s Creatures is pretty much set in stone from the start, both in tone and pacing, so there's not much to delve further into. Personally, I don't think the storyline is about you figuring out what's going on before the characters do - because you actually do - but more aboutThe plot of God’s Creatures is pretty much set in stone from the start, both in tone and pacing, so there's not much to delve further into. Personally, I don't think the storyline is about you figuring out what's going on before the characters do - because you actually do - but more about experiencing Emily Watson's character's dilemma and what ultimately causes her to take the decision with which the film concludes. A good drama, but it lacked spark and more flavor.… Expand

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moviemitch96

Oct 1, 2022

A Scottish mother (Emily Watson) finds herself caught in a moral dilemma when she impulsively decides to lie in order to protect her young son (Paul Mescal) from a heinous crime that he has been accused of in a rural Scottish fishing community. This is more of a slow burn from A24, and whileA Scottish mother (Emily Watson) finds herself caught in a moral dilemma when she impulsively decides to lie in order to protect her young son (Paul Mescal) from a heinous crime that he has been accused of in a rural Scottish fishing community. This is more of a slow burn from A24, and while there's really nothing too extraordinary on display here, it's the onscreen performances of Watson and Mescal that really keep things afloat here. Otherwise, it is somewhat of a forgettable film.… Expand

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JNavas

Oct 11, 2022

Painfully slow story of guilt and consequences. Everybody just plods along. Excellent cinematography, rich ambiance and sound aren't enough to save it. Might be an interesting place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

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