Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed ...

The Thing with Feathers' director Dylan Southern and star Benedict Cumberbatch talk about their Sundance premiere about a ...

Not yet rated. PARK CITY, Utah — Another title for “The Thing With Feathers,” which premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival, could be “The Giant Talking Crow.” Because ...

Benedict Cumberbatch gives it his all in The Thing with Feathers, but the horror movie lives up to neither his performance, ...

Crow never becomes a gripping character; he's too sternly abstract, too hectoring, too much of a visual effect in search of a personality.

In adapting Max Porter’s novel “Grief Is the Thing with Feathers,” noted documentary director Dylan ... as the Cumberbatch character’s sketches of a crow come to life in the form of a ...

Southern’s creative style and direction to manifest grief onscreen interconnects with the horror genre, it's just not ...

While Thewlis clearly relishes dialing up the nastiness in Crow’s exchanges with “Sad Dad,” which ... Considering the delicacy of its subject matter, The Thing With Feathers is strangely distancing.