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The Big Picture We love a feature debut like Benjamin Finkel’s haunting chiller Family that immediately announces a powerful filmmaking voice. It’s not just creepy, it’s downright scary in a way that harkens back to Ari Aster’s Hereditary or Remi Weekes’ His House. My notes are littered with comparison points like Baskin, Gretel & Hansel, The Babadook, and A Dark Song that make up the film’s sobering entrapment based on the looming specter of immeasurable loss.
Finkel sets himself the immediate challenge of hinging his traumatizing story on the performance of an adolescent protagonist. Bluntly, not all child actors can carry movies like lil’ Lucinda Lee Dawson Gray. All the performances are incredibly strong — Ben Chaplin as the bony, radiation-riddled man in a losing battle, Ruth Wilson as the overwhelmed woman under pressure trying to hold everything together — but Gray is the “hero” of Family, and she’s mature beyond her years as a performer.
'Family' Lives and Dies By Its Ending It’s in the third act where Family will either win or lose audiences, which is, at the very least, the mark of something interesting. That’s where the “cosmic” comes in, and Finkle feels Darren Aronofsky’s instincts flow through his body.
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