I am with you. If there is no resolution, I'm not into human suffering, victimization of women, or murder for "entertainment."

Could you please bury "meh" under it?

My niece begged me to drive her to the theater for this one and she cried her little eyes out. The only part missing was the death of a child from meningitis whose parents had faithfully treated him with maple syrup, with Garner saying sappily, "We'll pray for you."
Every possible element from sun-bathed soft focus to…

You need to prove something. Good luck with that.
Did I say your "actual points" are wrong? They are your opinion. If you valued it more, you wouldn't need me or anyone else to validate. You could also move beyond, "I'm right, you're wrong" limitations.

"So to qualify as a Story, it has to explain everything to you and leave nothing to your imagination?"

Why was the family banished from the community?
Where did the witch come from, who is she, and why does she target the family?
Has the witch done this before?
What happens to the family members in the woods?
Scenes and anecdotes do not a story make. There is no resolution, continuity or conclusion.
The filmmaker went to…

I watched this gorgeous mess last night. Dowd does what so many reviewers have done: wet himself over influences and conjecture, but fails to address the primary failing of the film: THERE IS NO STORY. All the playing pieces are put on the board and many move around, then it's over. AGorgeous sets, set-ups, weirdness,…

Excellent synopsis and observations. When the kid confronts Taylor at school about showing up to rat and starts repeating, "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you," and then the two separate, the gun is pointed at the kid and there's a look of shock on his face, but it took a few seconds to reveal Taylor had…

I don't think this critic paid attention. The scene at the home dinner table with the co-worker and neighbors was brilliant. How that continued to resonate until the end of the movie is better still.

11 days later…
Dowd doesn't get THE GIFT. What is interesting is that none of the characters appear to change: just their levels of knowledge about one another change.

A.A.Dowd missed the story and came away with a superficial impression of the film and its characters.

Brilliant!

That is fcuking golden!

The YouTube interviews of American Horror Story Extra-Ordinary Artists (so far there are five) are better than the series. These people and their stories are lost in the "desperately weird" AHS series, they are treated as props.

Pitiful… all the lame comments aiming to be "noticed" by The Onion.
Give it up and make pertinent observations or save your searing humor for your dogs.

"Christian Spotlight On The Movies" gave it 3.5/5 stars… good thing there weren't any gays kissing, just chainsaw murders. 

Robinson touches on the fact that nobody in the film has a French accent, much worse, the American actors adopt British accents. Couldn't a film version strive to correct this? It isn't a mere screen adaptation of the West End London stage production. While Jackman is being hailed, I found his delivery to be warbly…

Robinson touches on the fact that nobody in the film has a French accent, much worse, the American actors adopt British accents. Couldn't a film version strive to correct this? It isn't a mere screen adaptation of the West End London stage production. While Jackman is being hailed, I found his delivery to be warbly…

The story takes place in FRANCE, what's with all the British accents — especially Cockney twang from character actors?

The story takes place in FRANCE, what's with all the British accents — especially Cockney twang from character actors?