Sinister and hilarious, psychedelic yet grounded, absurdist while still grippin...

It's ominous, brutal, pretentious, and often stirring.

...brings us back to Wheatley’s classic world of occult loopy weirdness and cult Britmovie seediness...

...impressively detailed sound design and Nick Gillespie’s transporting cinematography help to lift us out of our living rooms...

...proves there’s mileage in pandemic stories beyond viral infection and Zoom calls.

Writer-director Ben Wheatley takes an almost sadistic pleasure in setting up and showing, in excruciating detail, the gory injuries and gorier “treatments”...

It’s a visceral experience...

...cuts deeply into nightmarish territory that's both alien and sadly familiar, and it broaches topical themes without being preachy or intellectual.