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The Turning
Directed by
Floria Sigismondi
PG-13
2020
1h 34m
Drama
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3.9
12%
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A young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl's problematic brother uncovers secrets from their past. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."
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Cast of The Turning
Mackenzie Davis
Kate
Finn Wolfhard
Miles
Brooklynn Prince
Flora
Mark Huberman
Bert
Niall Greig Fulton
Peter Quint
Kim Adis
Rose
Joely Richardson
Darla Mandell
Denna Thomsen
Miss Jessel
Barbara Marten
Mrs. Grose
Karen Egan
Nancy
Darlene Garr
Holly
The Turning Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Oliver Jones
Only The Florida Project's Brooklynn Prince makes it out of the proceedings unscathed. She brings a playful naturalism to the dark imp Flora. If she keeps it up, she's this generation's Margaret O'Brien.
RogerEbert.com
Christy Lemire
The Turning suggests the devastation that can linger as a result of childhood trauma, and its players seem game to go deeper, but ultimately the film only scratches the surface of this thorny subject.
indieWire
Jude Dry
"The Turning" announces Sigismondi as a bold and adept genre filmmaker, with an eye for detail and impeccable casting choices.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
The Turning doesn't make you feel like you've watched a failed adaptation of a horror-lit landmark. It just leaves you feeling totally screwed.
Bloody Disgusting
Meagan Navarro
The Turning retells a Gothic classic with style, little substance, and a baffling non-conclusion
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
If there's any redemption here, it's in the children.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
It's almost as if Sigismondi and the writers are daring the audience to say nice things about their reworking of James' source material.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
Sigismondi stumbles her way toward a bombastic, pseudo-psychological ending that undercuts her own terrible ideas and leaves audiences bemoaning their wasted time and money.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
The Turning is trying to make a statement about mental illness, but the movie so superficially handles the concept that it's more disrespectful than insightful.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
The final ten minutes of this movie are unforgivable.
Chicago Reader
Becca James
Unfortunately, a bevy of offscreen characters that only serve to complicate an already meandering plot and a sorely muddled ending rob it of its full potential.
Vanity Fair
K. Austin Collins
The Turning, with its conspicuous lens flares, awkward digital zooms, and slipshod editing, creeps a little too frequently into screensaver territory and suffers for it.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Tim Cogshell
This is the difficult thing about ghost stories... Sweetie, whatever happens you got coming to you, because there is plainly a ghost in this house.
Riot Material
Kristy Puchko
All the goodwill earned by a crackerjack cast, elegantly elegiac visuals, and a thought-provoking subtext is scuttled by a clumsy and confounding conclusion.
Associated Press
Jocelyn Noveck
It proves harder still to discern the message in that abrupt ending. Yes, it's commendable to find new ways to tell a classic tale. It's just that this tale has been told better, and more clearly, many times before.
TheWrap
Dan Callahan
Davis has not been helped by a blonde coiffure that is so rigid and harshly cut that it makes it look like she is trying to act under an enchanted cottage.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
It's the movie's open-endedness and literary vestiges that sit uneasily with its repetitive goosings, which manifest in exceedingly familiar ways.
AV Club
Jesse Hassenger
In a movie as utterly lost as The Turning, everything from the performances to the production design to the music cues amount to one big pile of dirty mirrors and doll parts.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
The Turning sacrifices narrative and emotional coherence in favor of a series of would-be scary set pieces that seem mainly designed to discourage aspiring nannies from pursuing the vocation.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
It's less about answers and more about evoking a richly rendered gothic horror vibe while intuition bitterly battles reason. It may not work for everyone, but those for whom it works will find much to savor and puzzle over in "The Turning."
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