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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90PolygonRoxana HadadiPolygonRoxana HadadiBy probing at the ways people are on their best behavior while inherently personifying the worst effects of capitalism and greed, and knowing when to abandon modesty for brutality, Jones and Williams turn The Feast into one of the year’s most smartly conceived, plainly effective horrors.
- 80IGNKristy PuchkoIGNKristy PuchkoDirector Lee Haven Jones elevates this ripe premise with a masterful use of color and a garnish of gore. This makes for a feast of the eyes, bursting with visuals gorgeous and gruesome. Tied together with a surreal tone and topped off with a generous sprinkling of carnage, The Feast serves up a heady and haunting experience that sticks to your ribs and rattles your nerves.
- 75The Film StageChristian GallichioThe Film StageChristian GallichioNot all choices that Williams and Jones make pay off—including a late-act decision to explicitly spell out the reasons Cadi is seeking revenge—but The Feast is a compelling addition to the burgeoning genre of eco-horror, one of the more gruesome, nasty films in recent memory.
- 70Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe film takes its cues from Elwy’s remarkable performance as Cadi, who is at once seductive and terrifying.
- 67IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichDespite its refined palate and dashes of local flavor, The Feast remains empty calories — haunting only for how it seems to admit as much in the very last shot.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger Moore“Tone” is the triumph of the Welsh thriller The Feast. Tone — in its lonely, remote setting, its chilly, unsettling characters and the deeply unpleasant things that transpire — is everything.
- 63Slant MagazineWilliam RepassSlant MagazineWilliam RepassThe Feast makes a stab at drawing out modern, very real anxieties around wealth disparity and ecological devastation without falling back on genre tropes, asking us to consider how the land itself may come to feast on the rich.
- 63RogerEbert.comNick AllenRogerEbert.comNick AllenThere are endless horror movies out there in which a slow burn seems like it's just killing time before it's actually time to kill. But "The Feast" does well with that dread—it's the main course that proves to be the rip-off, however gory, indulgent, and horror-ready it is.
- 60Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerPaste MagazineBrianna ZiglerJones suffuses slow-burn tension, disturbing visual elements and murky folk horror into a film that’s foundation rests on creeping uncertainties—making The Feast pleasantly obscure and occasionally quite upsetting.
- 50TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiThe first two courses of this three-course meal were on the bland side. The third course is exciting, but by that point our appetite has waned, our interest in the company has dissipated, and we’re pretty much ready to go home.