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4 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisWith Shepherd, the Welsh writer and director Russell Owen shows us how to accrue a great deal of atmosphere with very little fuss.
- 60Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayWhile the plot here is thin (and slow-paced, and oppressively grim), Owen has a remarkable facility for generating atmosphere. He’s made a film where one man’s internal strife has been effectively externalized as an inescapable, picturesque purgatory.
- 58The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakRatcheting up the conflict and confusion becomes counter-intuitive, the escalation of violence and brutality arriving without clear motive. I can’t even decide for myself what’s happening—there’s nothing but smoke to grab. Owen stripped away the film’s own agency.
- 50PolygonKatie RifePolygonKatie RifeShepherd is more of a bandwagon-jumping exercise in arthouse horror films about grief than a truly bone-chilling example of one.