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    • Movie Review: The Reckoning (2020) - The Critical Movie Critics
      • Marshall seems to have decided on an overtly melodramatic style, with crosscutting between different times and locations as well as distracting inserts (hey look, they had hot sex in olden times!). The melodramatic style does start to fit in the film’s final act as The Reckoning morphs into a sort of period revenge action movie.
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  2. Feb 18, 2021 · Her near-perfect make-up and hair give proceedings the air of a 1980s miniseries (there’s a soapy melodramatic feel to it anyway), and work against how victims would be othered – once you take away what makes someone look like an individual, sympathy often seeps away.

    • UK
    • Neil Marshall
    • 2021
  3. Feb 5, 2021 · The main thing holding back “The Reckoning” from being effectively provocative is its creators’ general omission of crass, melodramatic details that might have made Grace’s considerable suffering more than a little upsetting.

  4. Feb 18, 2021 · The Reckoning is about the persecution of women, and it doesnt limit itself to witchfinding. Grace’s friend Kate is attacked by her husband in their cart when she tries to defend her friend; she fights back though, and in her case a quick brain defeats a stronger opponent.

  5. Feb 3, 2021 · Following the misfire of 2019’s “Hellboy” reboot, “The Descent” director Neil Marshall returns to his traditional horror roots with “ The Reckoning ,” an uneven melodrama about an innocent...

  6. After losing her husband during the Great Plague, Grace Haverstock (Charlotte Kirk) is unjustly accused of being a witch and placed in the custody of England’s most ruthless witch-hunter, Judge Moorcroft (Sean Pertwee).

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    • Sean Pertwee
    • Neil Marshall
  7. Nov 5, 2020 · The melodramatic style does start to fit in the film’s final act as The Reckoning morphs into a sort of period revenge action movie. Torture instruments are turned about, bedpans and stools are swung as weapons alongside swords.

  8. Feb 9, 2021 · While an interesting shell of a film is presented through its opening sequence, The Reckoning is a monotonous, overlong slog filled with never-ending sequences of torture and minimal character development.

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