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  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Sixteen year-old Laura Chant (Erana James) lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko (Benji Purchase) in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit beco...

Directed By: Miranda Harcourt, Stuart McKenzie

Written By: Margaret Mahy, Stuart McKenzie

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 35 m

The Changeover

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Sixteen year-old Laura Chant (Erana James) lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko (Benji Purchase) in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly drains the life out of him as the spirit beco...

Directed By: Miranda Harcourt, Stuart McKenzie

Written By: Margaret Mahy, Stuart McKenzie

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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100
Feb 21, 2019
It's worth seeking out no matter how much trouble you have to go to, because it's special: assured but modest, full of surprises. It doesn't go the way you expect it to, and yet in retrospect each move seems inevitable, like the incremental fulfillment of a prophecy.
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 21, 2019
Thanks to a focus on the setting and emotions of the story, by the time the life-or-death action kicks in, Harcourt and McKenzie have clearly delineated these characters and what they’re facing — bringing Mahy’s words to life.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 21, 2019
Thanks to fine performances and a narrative that doesn’t hang about to admire itself, the movie goes down as easily as a love potion at a coven.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 21, 2019
It’s this carefully managed equilibrium between the inherent preposterousness of its mystical milieu and the convincing emotional reality of Laura’s journey that ultimately makes The Changeover, for all its muddled mythos, a lively and engaging excursion into an unusually naturalistic world of magic.
By Keith Watson FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 16, 2019
The Changeover is a moody, menacing thriller with a YA (Young Adult) heroine.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 24, 2019
An interesting if somewhat incomplete horror thriller with decent performances, “The Changeover” is nevertheless hampered by a script that doesn’t seem to know how to connect all its narrative dots.
By Warren Cantrell FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 21, 2019
The deeper the script gets into how its version of witchcraft works, the less convincing it becomes. Uniformly solid performances and artful camera/sound work make the movie hard to dismiss out of hand, but the script doesn't sell its hokum as effectively as more mainstream supernatural soap operas.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Firefly Films
Release Date Feb 22, 2019
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline If You Change Something It Changes You
Website https://www.facebook.com/thechangeovermovie/
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Awards

New Zealand Cinematographers Society
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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