The Devil All the Time

Name: The Devil All the Time
Director: Antonio Campos
Genre: Crime/detective, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2020
Duration: 2 h 17 min
Cast: Tom Holland (2), Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke (2), Sebastian Stan

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Crime/detective
Drama

2020
Antonio Campos
137 mins
18

Summary

Set in rural southern Ohio, during the end of World War Two to the 1960's, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of bizarre characters ranging from murderers and serial killers to a veteran of the carange in the South Pacific. Crime drama, starring Bill Skarsgard, Tom Holland, Banks Repeta, Emilio Subercaseaux Campos and Haley Bennett

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Matt Glasby

Steeped in Southern gothic, swarming flies and blood-and-thunder fundamentalism, the fourth film from indie darling Antonio Campos (Afterschool) represents a step towards the big time. It's an assured adaptation of the 2011 novel by master nihilist Donald Ray Pollock, who also narrates, and it follows a cast of conmen, murderers and crazies whose lives intersect - often violently - in rural 1950s Ohio. Our hero is Arvin Russell (Tom Holland), who must navigate the rocky path to righteousness despite the ravings of his war-traumatised father (Bill Skarsgård) and the calculations of a corrupt preacher (Robert Pattinson) who has designs on Arvin's step-sister (Little Women's Eliza Scanlen). Helped by exemplary performances from the largely European cast, the film conjures a bleak world of people broken by God's brutal designs, but there's something missing at the core. Perhaps it's because, like the book, it's a story more concerned with cataloguing its characters' misdeeds than comprehending them.

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7.1/10

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rolenameArvin RussellTom Holland (2)Willard RussellBill SkarsgårdSandy HendersonRiley KeoughCarl HendersonJason Clarke (2)Lee BodeckerSebastian StanCharlotte RussellHaley BennettLenora LafertyEliza ScanlenHelen HattonMia WasikowskaPreston TeagardinRobert PattinsonRoy LafertyHarry MellingTheodorePokey LaFargeNarratorDonald Ray Pollock