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The Shift
Directed by
Brock Heasley
2023
1h 53m
PG-13
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After meeting a mysterious stranger, a man must escape a dystopian world to return to his wife.
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Cast of The Shift
Sean Astin
Gabriel
Neal McDonough
The Benefactor
Elizabeth Tabish
Molly Garner
Jason Marsden
Cyrus
Paras Patel
Rajit Nadir
Emily Rose
Tabitha
Nolan North
Brett
Kristoffer Polaha
Kevin Garner
Rose Reid
Tina
John Billingsley
Russo
Jordan Walker Ross
Brendan
Jordan Alexandra
Priya Nadir
Teck
Mia
The Shift Reviews
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
As the storyline endlessly and confusingly shifts from one reality to another, it's all too easy to tune out until we encounter one that's interesting. Alas, that never happens.
Chicago Reader
Noah Berlatsky
A remarkably incoherent farrago of sci-fi tropes and Christian proselytizing.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
A gripping, heartfelt and provocative love story.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
"The Shift" isn't compelling, with Heasley struggling to find some sort of pace to the endeavor, which largely remains in conversation mode, diluting any potential for suspense.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
This new film works nicely on one level, but falters significantly on the other. And they're not the levels you probably expect.
TheIndependentCritic.com
Richard Propes
While The Shift sure isn't a masterpiece, it's a confident and more than competent piece of filmmaking that successfully weaves together a core of faith meet science meets family drama.
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
The choice is yours whether to see Brock Heasley's feature debut as up-and-down romance, vehicular death dream, multiverse sci-fi or heavy-handed theodicean parable.
Screen Rant
Nadir Samara
The film tries desperately to scare us with the idea of a world without belief, but has neither the action nor dialogue to pull off such a feat.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
The Shift ... awkwardly adapts the Biblical story of Job by way of clunky world-hopping mechanics and a lot of preaching.
WORLD
Collin Garbarino
The Shift is a sci-fi thriller inspired by the Biblical story of Job. That's not what you were expecting, was it? Yeah, me neither…
Epoch Times
Michael Clark
While those already familiar with Job should find the parallels intriguing and inviting, the uninitiated might have trouble connecting the dots and could find the semi-convoluted, non-linear narrative closer to a Quentin Tarantino flick.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Heasley first made "The Shift" as a 21-minute short, and there's just enough here to support a feature.
Director's Club
Jim Laczkowski
Rambling incoherence about faith, choice, believing in Him, etc. An intriguing premise is reduced to feeling like a sci-fi channel pilot for a show I would never continue watching.
Common Sense Media
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It has decent visual effects and acting, but this faith-based sci-fi drama struggles with an uneven screenplay that doesn't quite manage to mesh the story of Job with a modern-day romance.
Rincón de cine
Laura Hiros
After eight years of titanic work, and crowdfunding the short becomes the debut feature of director and writer, Brock Heasley, and with it the idea of a film in many layers that allows the readings that its viewer gives it. [Full Review in Spanish]
Pauline Center for Media Studies
Hosea Rupprecht
As a fan of the science fiction genre, I think the idea of a faithful man stuck in a faithless universe could have been a fascinating one. It is unfortunate that The Shift fails to give the audience enough reason to care about what happens.
rogercatlin.com
Roger Catlin
It's all part of an alternate world Christianity so stylized it might make Christians cringe too.
The Movie Cricket
Sean P. Means
The ham-fisted attempts to drive the message home get in the way of some strong storytelling and solid performances by Polaha, Tabish and Sean Astin as a nonbeliever who starts to get swayed by Kevin's remembered scripture passages.
Houston Press
Pete Vonder Haar
As silly revolutionary parables go, it's less ridiculous than Arnold Schwarzenegger leading Dweezil Zappa in an uprising against the host of Family Feud. Or Mel Gibson driving Scotland to capital F "freedom" before siring Edward III with Queen Isabella.
High on Films
Shikhar Verma
The film starts smashing its smart sci-fi concept to smithereens by instead peddling some extremely inept faith-based propaganda your way.
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