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Krisha

Krisha

2016
Drama
1h 23m
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Avg Percentile 55.03% from 307 total ratings

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Rated 10 Mar 2016
80
89th
Krisha is a tense, powerful, and rewarding film. It's anchored by a terrific performance by Krisha Fairchild and brought to us by first-time feature-length director Trey Edward Shults. It's an intimate portrayal of addiction and the tensions that come from family get-togethers, and it feels incredibly real - even with some of its stylish flourishes thrown in. It's a confident and slow movie, one which lets things simmer for a long time before unleashing it all at the climax. Krisha is great.
Rated 27 Dec 2016
80
86th
A powerful and stylishly directed debut with intense performances. Krisha is trying to make up for and be done with the past, but the past isn't through with her. It's one of the best movies of its kind since 'Rachel Getting Married'.
Rated 25 Aug 2016
80
73rd
A wonderful debut about addiction and who it affects, which is only possible through Fairchild's powerful performance. Trey Edward Shults gives cinematic flare in a way to externalize the chaos occurring within Krisha. The result is both horrific and enthralling.
Rated 01 Apr 2016
81
83rd
An account of addiction through the perspective of its most direct, but surely not only, victim. Attempting to escape the effects of its grasp results in confusion and helplessness, and the frustration and anger that comes with those emotions only creates a bigger hole.
Rated 25 Nov 2017
78
69th
An emotional rollercoaster on camera. It really takes you into the headspace of its lead. Jus take the scene in which Krisha has to prepare the turkey; the nervous jazz soundtrack and camera movement just make you feel her anxiety
Rated 09 Aug 2018
75
66th
Everyone loves a good ole 'Turkey on the Floor' movie.
Rated 05 Sep 2016
57
48th
The film's sophisticated technique of wide steadicam shots feels like paranoia from the start; theme, actress, and presentation suggest a suburban recalibration of Requiem for a Dream. And I don't deny that it does justice to the situation within its spiritual limitations (these are a bunch of ugly, egocentric people), but the target is a sitting duck.
Rated 30 Oct 2016
100
90th
so so good!
Rated 28 Dec 2016
71
75th
Perfect movie for a holiday gathering.
Rated 05 Jan 2017
60
89th
This was a surprisingly intimate little indie movie. Much helped by real family connections and what seemed real issues at heart. Regardless the inspiration, director Trey Edward Shults draws out the best of a limited source.
Rated 03 Mar 2017
75
75th
damn, ioneem know what i'd do at a white fam get-together anymore
Rated 11 Jun 2017
72
53rd
Obviously feels like a very personal film. Krisha Fairchild drives the film in what is a good debut by Shults. Maybe a few too many characters in the film. There are some really nice scenes here. Not sure if the ending was intentionally ambiguous or if I am just reading too much into it.
Rated 26 Jun 2017
40
13th
Empty exercise of style disguised as the family's black sheep on a journey (back) to hell. Just bland cinema of DISCOMFORT (lol) and unease perfectly slated for festivals and arthouse crowds. The score makes it worse than it should be.
Rated 19 Dec 2017
1
4th
the most interesting character in this movie is a woman with actual alzheimer's who's being exploited so her grandson can share his "gift" for filmmaking, which amounts to indulgently cribbing from all his favourite filmmakers at random. could've been a ten minute short and lost nothing.
Rated 01 Jun 2018
78
67th
Stylistically translates its titular character's mental illness into a depiction fraught with outright discomfort and anxiety for the spectator. The sigh of relief I breathed upon its ending could move mountains.
Rated 19 Nov 2018
8
65th
i'm surprised by some of the negative reviews. i truly thought that if this movie were nothing else, it's got to be the most realistic portrayal of alchoholism. how many films have even attempted to do that from the perspective of the alchoholic? the melodramatic and catastrophic self-pity, the lies, the constant "starting over", the neediness, the mood swings and outbursts, the impulsivity, the brooding. watching an alcoholic deteriorate is an ugly sight. but can we blame them for it?
Rated 24 Sep 2020
54
60th
The first twenty minutes are breezy, but the score keeps noodling away nervously, and the movie then goes very dark. This may be the most real, honest, and troubling representation of addiction ever seen on film. Krisha Fairchild deserves award consideration for her performance. I like it, I respect it immensely, but it is not an enjoyable ride, and I may never want to see it again.
Rated 27 Nov 2020
34
30th
Trey Edward Shults has obviously spent a lot of time thinking about all the "cool" camera moves he wants to do, when he should have been spending some of that time thinking about human beings, or at the very least how to direct them. Strains incredibly hard for emotional "realism" but nearly all the drama feels tin-eared and false. The only truthful thing about it is that after spending time with these awful, uptight suburban white people I, like Krisha, also badly needed a drink.
Rated 02 Dec 2016
81
90th
Haunting and unsettling, this film recreates a the feeling of a great horror film set around a Thanksgiving dinner.
Rated 10 Jan 2017
40
2nd
Viewed January 9, 2017. There's a thoughtfulness here that I simply can't deny. Even as Shults wears his influences on his sleeve, he uses their style in intriguing ways, like the contrast in utilizing Malick-esque camera moves to capture ugly family squabbles in dreary settings. But as with most things, a little bit goes a long way - this is just about the most obvious movie ever made, bludgeoning its point through thoroughly obnoxious sensory overload, while never providing any real insight.
Rated 12 Feb 2017
45
16th
kamera kullanımı ve anlatım tekniği bile ilgi çekici yapmayı başaramadı. belki de yanlış zamanda yanlış film tercihi olmuştur sadece.
Rated 09 Jun 2017
0
4th
I saw 18 minutes of this garbage, then I turned that shit off.
Rated 27 Jul 2018
50
14th
Not enough going on here, despite its obvious formal strengths.
Rated 02 Sep 2018
50
49th
This movie plays like a real life family reunion, but with an estranged sister who is a disturbed and unstable addict. Much of the beginning is overlaid with insane crazy music. I really enjoyed the amusing humor of the brother in law. It was obvious that some crazy stuff was about to happen, but when it comes, terrible editing jumbles up the timeline and turns it into a confusing mess. I am also not a fan of the director who puts the camera on her face and just lets it sit there.
Rated 12 Jan 2019
47
34th
haunting soundtrack that creeped me out, very unsettling film. Psychological mindtrip
Rated 16 Feb 2019
75
83rd
İlginç bir film. Şükran gününde buluşan bir aile, 10 sene sonra ziyaret eden bir teyze ile işler karışıyor. Sıkı bağları olan, kaba ve terbiyesiz 1 aile ile tanışıyoruz. Kötü kadın Krisha, alkol sorunu da olunca, fazla huzur ona fenalık geliyor. Kargaşa çıkaran Krisha, aile tarafından dışlanır. Amatör oyuncular, usta oyunculardan bile çok iyi. Senaryosunda eksiklikler olduğu, seyirciye istediğin gibi davran imkanını bırakıyor. Dönüşüm muhteşem olacak
Rated 29 Nov 2019
50
9th
I liked some things like the estranged son. How bad/dumb she was like my mom but extra. The selfish asshole sayin her self healing is bs etc like my dad but extra, relating to his own problems. then the substances still being her escape
Rated 04 May 2020
60
28th
I appreciated the cinematography and sound for the first 20 minutes or so, but it becomes repetitive and ultimately the story doesn't go much of anywhere--other than where you would expect--and the emotions at the end don't feel justified because of the excessive discontinuity in the editing.
Rated 24 Jun 2020
55
24th
Shults is a skilled director, but I've always gotten a bit of a "white guy falling up" aura from him and I think this debut shows why. It's an admirable passion project but the style is pretty overbearing and the treatment of addiction is nothing revolutionary.
Rated 16 Sep 2020
30
18th
Incredibly boring!
Rated 02 Feb 2022
2
5th
gereksiz uzundu, değişik bir şey olacak diye bekledim ama olmadı. 60'larında, bağımlı bir kadının aile ile buluşması.
Rated 06 Aug 2023
86
78th
I’m floored by the nuanced, soulful lead performance. The subjective cinematography and sound evokes tone beautifully.
Rated 13 Jan 2024
70
66th
A very compelling and sensory look at how returning to the hellish nucleus of almost all problems, i.e The Family, and the personally much feared and avoided Family Reunion, can ignite addiction relapse. On the nose, yes, but credible as hell

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