He rarely does more than deliver on expectations, but he knows the conventions of genre material enough to exploit them to clever effect. (film.avclub.com)
But the temporarily pluralized title made some sense: As in last year's Prisoners, which similarly treated hoary genre material with poker - faced seriousness, there's a sense that all of the characters are trapped — by their guilt, by their grief, by their obsessions. (film.avclub.com)
A chase thriller, a supernatural parable, an experiment in minimalist narrative and sustained mystery — Jeff Nichols» superb foray into genre material is so inextricably rooted in day - to - day American reality that it can be easy to overlook how strange and uncommon it is as a piece of filmmaking. (film.avclub.com)