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By Kat H (74) on 13 May 2018

Excellent lead performance and very good cinematography but hampered by a clunky script poorly plotted with too on-the-nose dialogue and very…

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By Kaleem Aftab (340) for Cineuropa (34) on 13 May 2018

Pearce expertly mixes genres - psychological thriller, horror and romance - to keep the story on a knife-edge…

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By Glenn G (284) on 13 May 2018

Excellent lead performance and very good cinematography but hampered by a clunky script poorly plotted with too on-the-nose dialogue and very…

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By Mike O (339) on 12 May 2018

Really wanted to like it, but not the movie I was expecting from the reviews…

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By Dirigiblepulp (205) on 11 May 2018

This movie is somehow slightly worse than the sum of its parts…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 11 May 2018

Its control of tone can be a little uncertain, particularly during the ambitious epilogue – and I wish it had allowed itself a little more…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 May 2018

One of the strengths of the film, also written by Pearce, is how much it is willing to withhold, without descending into Gotcha! manipulation…

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By Tony P (976) on 10 May 2018

Psychological thriller set on the English Channel island of Jersey…

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By Michael Gingold (56) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 10 May 2018

There is indeed beauty to be found on the island, but Pearce's sharply made point is that beastliness can lurk in unexpected places…

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By Liz B (280) on 10 May 2018

Psychological thriller set on the English Channel island of Jersey…

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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 09 May 2018

These two young actors are mesmerizing --- you literally cannot take your eyes from the screen…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 09 May 2018

With the assured script and deft direction from Pearce, along with Buckley's complex and nuanced performance, we never know what's actually…

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By David Kaplan (436) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 09 May 2018

Beast is a frightening piece of work, despite its lack of violence…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 May 2018

This film, a formidably accomplished debut feature by Michael Pearce, takes us down familiar paths into a darkness all its own…

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By Jeannette Catsoulis (1,537) for New York Times (5,786) on 09 May 2018

Bathed in a shadowy beauty and slippery psychological atmosphere, “Beast” soars on Ms. Buckley’s increasingly animalistic performance…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 09 May 2018

Pearce takes his time laying out his sleeping-with-the-enemy tale, but his stinginess with plot lends the film an vice-tightening air of mystery…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 May 2018

Pearce, in his feature directing debut, proves himself a solid craftsman, with a gift for giving even derivative story elements a nerve-jangling…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 May 2018

Revisiting Beast may prove more satisfying than just visiting once…

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By Mike D'angelo (730) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 May 2018

There’s such a thing as being too damn ambiguous…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 May 2018

Despite starting strong, this psychosexual thriller is at once ham-fisted, obvious and all-too-frequently preposterous…

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