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By Sarah Ward (538) for ArtsHub (131) on 15 Jul 2018

This tale of beasts and beauty claws through appearances, expectations, and the fine line between inviting and troubling - and victim and attacker…

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By Katie Goh (11) for The Skinny (809) on 26 Jun 2018

An exploration of just how flimsy the boundary is between man and animal, Beast is a thriller with a nasty bite…

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By Sr. Rose Pacatte (156) for St. Anthony Messenger (31) on 21 Jun 2018

Beast is a psychological thriller with terrific acting…

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By Katherine Monk (493) for Ex-Press.com (333) on 15 Jun 2018

Definitely a dangerous bone for a date movie, but a good gnaw for those who seek a dark theatre and a cloudy sky in summer…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 14 Jun 2018

Pearce cleverly steers us into this dark drama Moll-first…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 13 Jun 2018

A jagged but memorable feature... that slowly yields its truths…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Jun 2018

It's not a bad movie, but it's precisely the sort of middling genre exercise with which we are culturally oversaturated at the moment…

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By Victoria Alexander (762) for FilmsInReview.com (462) on 08 Jun 2018

Sensational. Buckley and Flynn are sensational. Skip the comic book movies and see BEAST. This film stays with you…

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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Capital Times (Madison, WI) (875) on 07 Jun 2018

Pearce is a master at building unnerving ambiguity into scenes that can be interpreted multiple ways, keeping us guessing into the last possible…

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By Barry Paris (96) for Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (258) on 31 May 2018

Yes, well, in any case, the film's dramatic set-up and performances are gripping, but it gets progressively soapy and -- at 147 minutes --…

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By M. Faust (314) for The Public (Buffalo) (288) on 31 May 2018

[Jessie Buckley's] increasingly unhinged performance is reason enough to see the film, as is the assured direction of newcomer Michael Pearce,…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 May 2018

Buckley and Flynn keep us on our toes, their darkened malice turning to teary-eyed contrition until we’re left hopeless as far as figuring…

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By Brad Keefe (343) for Columbus Alive (355) on 30 May 2018

Beast is often bleak, sometimes beautiful and occasionally baffling…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 30 May 2018

Beast is hard to watch at times, from its graphic crime-scene photos to the pitiless way a rabbit is dispatched…

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By Lisa Jensen (117) for Good Times Santa Cruz (117) on 29 May 2018

For his impressive debut feature, writer-director Michael Pearce crafts an eerie mood of unspecified menace in which anything might happen,…

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By Steve Murray (153) for ArtsATL (57) on 24 May 2018

While not gratuitous or gory, Beast won't be everyone's cuppa. But it's a really memorable debut by Pearce - and maybe even more so for Buckley…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 24 May 2018

Beast is a pitch black ride into the recesses of the human soul, and Buckley is the film's cold, dark heart…

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By Robert Horton (590) for Seattle Weekly (293) on 24 May 2018

A little like Nicholas Ray's great film noir In a Lonely Place (1950), where we watch Humphrey Bogart begin a romance with Gloria Grahame while…

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By Peg Aloi (89) for Arts Fuse (166) on 23 May 2018

Self-assured and finely-wrought...along with its atmospherics, the film's strength comes from its excellent casting…

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By Ciara Dolan (18) for The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (891) on 23 May 2018

It's both intoxicating and claustrophobic-a swirling vortex of desire and denial that exposes the wildness behind our most controlled exteriors…

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