How the Who inspired a key scene in Benedict Cumberbatch's new movie, “The Thing With Feathers”
The Thing With Feathers may be based on a book, but it also takes inspiration from an unlikely source — the album cover of the Who's 1979 album, The Kids Are Alright. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night,
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: A Go-for-Broke Benedict Cumberbatch Unravels in a Movie Stuck Awkwardly Between Horror and Psychodrama
Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,’ about a widowed father and the menacing giant crow that attaches itself to his sorrow.
The Thing With Feathers Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Goes All-In For This Treatise On Grief [SUNDANCE 2025]
In "The Thing With Feathers," based on the 2015 novel "Grief is the Thing With Feathers" by Max Porter, grief is manifested by a giant, anthropomorphized crow, who alternately haunts and helps a family recover from the sudden loss of its wife and mother.
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Fights His Dark Side In A Powerful Portrayal Of Grief – Sundance Film Festival
Played by Benedict Cumberbatch, he is an artist of sorts; some people call his work “comic books,” others call them “graphic novels,” a term he thinks is “wanky.” His output is alluded to in the film’s atmospheric credit sequence,
The Thing With Feathers Sundance Review — Benedict Cumberbatch Shines in Overt but Effective Horror Allegory
Horror films aren’t exactly known for their subtlety, but The Thing With Feathers has no subtlety in sight. On paper, The Thing With Feathers does seem like
‘The Thing with Feathers' Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays a Widowed Father in a Movie That's Overly Literal About Turning Grief into - Yes - an Oversize Crow
Crow never becomes a gripping character; he's too sternly abstract, too hectoring, too much of a visual effect in search of a personality.
‘The Thing With Feathers’ Sundance review: Benedict Cumberbatch talks to a giant crow in bizarre misfire
Another title for “The Thing With Feathers,” which premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, could be “The Giant Talking Crow.”
The Thing With Feathers Almost Wastes a Great Benedict Cumberbatch Performance
The actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.
Benedict Cumberbatch says he was wrong about Doctor Strange not appearing in the next 'Avengers' movie: 'Don't ever believe anything I say'
Benedict Cumberbatch recently said he wouldn't be in the next "Avengers" movie as Doctor Strange. Now, he's backtracking...
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SUNDANCE: ‘The Thing With Feathers’ Is A Vital All-Ages Grief Tale
Benedict Cumberbatch's The Thing With Feathers is an all-ages horror story about grief that is vital for young audiences. The ...
Benedict Cumberbatch: Actors Are ‘Really F—ing Weird Creatures. We Want to Be in Extreme Situations Sometimes to Tell a Real Story’
Benedict Cumberbatch joined the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance to discuss playing the extreme grief of his ...