Review of In the Earth (2021) by Alison Willmore for New York Magazine (Vulture) — 15 Apr 2021
COVID has proven a difficult subject for fiction, but In the Earth feels as though it sets up an emotional parallel that it doesn’t follow through on, abandoning the virus as a backdrop for a horror story that’s slapdash and never very creepy.
It’s another instance of pandemic cinema that feels as if it could use more distance to figure out what it wants to say.
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This review of In the Earth (2021) was written by Alison Willmore and published by New York Magazine (Vulture) on 15 Apr 2021.
In the Earth has generally received mixed reviews.
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