![]() ![]() It’s an elegantly crafted production, half-crazed and borderline kitschy but with a serious core that traces-or retraces, since no psychological trails are blazed here-the links between violence, sexuality, human fragility and the godawful things people can do in the name of religious faith. ![]() Campos and his superb cast confer such authority on the whole thing that there’s no choice but to follow the film’s three time-hopping, befuddlingly intertwined stories-for 138 minutes, no less. ![]() This panoply of evil deeds and deranged retribution, streaming on Netflix, goes beyond gothic to genuinely ghastly, reaches deeper than noir into the Stygian. Southern gothic or film noir barely begins to describe “The Devil All the Time,” Antonio Campos’s superheated screen version of the novel by Donald Ray Pollock. Watch a clip from the movie ‘The Devil All the Time.’ Photo: Netflix ![]()
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