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Take Me to the River
Directed by
Matt Sobel
Not Rated
2015
84m
Drama
6.2
72%
41%
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A Californian teenager's plan to come out at his Nebraskan family reunion gets derailed when a bloodstain on his young cousin's dress makes him the unwitting suspect of abuse.
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Cast of Take Me to the River
Logan Miller
Ryder
Robin Weigert
Cindy
Josh Hamilton
Keith
Richard Schiff
Don
Ursula Parker
Molly
Azura Skye
Ruth
Ashley Gerasimovich
Abbey
Elizabeth Franz
Evelyn
Seth Young
Trenton
Amy Hostetler
Terry
Matt Sobel
Director / Writer / Producer
Take Me to the River Ratings & Reviews
John Laurean
April 23, 2025
Riveting with a decent ending
Sara T
March 21, 2025
It was ok but it didn't really make sense. No one said what the boy did or what the issue was between the mum and other family member.
IndieWire
Ibad Shah
With its lyrical approach to a deliberate pace, the movie develops a hypnotic effect even when deceptively little happens.
Arts Fuse
Peg Aloi
Even though the dialogue occasionally feels calculated, there is an undeniably compelling air of menace and secrecy generated, making it hard to guess what might happen next.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Matt Sobel transforms a nightmare he once had into an evocative, original drama.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Is it me, or is the big climactic reveal not really worth all the hubbub?
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Sobel evokes more terror from a shot of a field of sunflowers, or a weathered barn, than can be found in the last dozen found-footage films combined.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
Sobel is clearly trying to hit on something more original than a family-secrets drama, but in doing so, he pulls most of his punches.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Molly Eichel
The movie pivots from what I expected it to be: a family drama about an outsider, as the opening conversation suggests. Instead, it becomes an eerie mood piece about secrets buried deep in a family's fabric.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
The menace never becomes palpable, whether because of illogical plot lines or questionable casting. The stakes are so high, but the suspense never rises to the occasion.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Wonderfully confident and strange, "Take Me to the River" marks an auspicious directing debut for Matt Sobel. There's not a stale moment in it.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
At a time when many films can be viewed and summarily forgotten, "River" unsettles and lingers long afterwards -- just like the ghosts that haunt this family.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
For every "but why ..." the story engenders, there's an equally persuasive accumulation of arrestingly unsettling detail that builds its own assertive hum.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
It's a slowly tightening vise, all about suspicion and hostility and resentments and what people aren't talking about when they talk to each other.
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
The film exemplifies a very distinctive vision that marks it as one of the year's most promising debuts.
Slant Magazine
Diego Semerene
It's difficult to believe in Ryder's gullibility, if not willingness to be caught in his uncle's strange web of provocations.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
There's dramatic potential in Ryder's struggle to assert his identity, only to be upstaged by unforeseen troubles, but Mr. Sobel's film skates past any persuasive sense of motivation.
Film Comment Magazine
Manuel Betancourt
The sense of looming danger, couched in pregnant pauses and furtive looks, explodes in Sobel's third-act reveal.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Take Me To The River is vague to a fault, suggesting just enough to get across what may be going on, while remaining open to interpretation.
Village Voice
Tatiana Craine
Impeccable performances propel River through both sluggish and torturous scenes; Parker is superb, a pint-sized talent who spars perfectly with Miller's confused, naive teen.
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