This low-budget debut by Joshua Overbay cooks a surprising amount of tension from the barest minimum of ingredients.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill Stamets
Chicago Sun-TimesBill Stamets
A disquieting film about testing faith.
75
RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams
RogerEbert.comSimon Abrams
As It Is in Heaven ultimately doesn't go anywhere unexpected, but it does foster a potent, unexpected bond between its subjects and its audience.
70
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
Overbay's palette is carefully lyrical, at a benumbed Martha Marcy May Marlene pitch, he pays attention to the verdant landscape and keeps his cast at a pensive and watchful low boil.
This journey into "Martha Marcy May Marlene" territory is never as tense and gripping as it should be, the incidents and most of the performances too tamped-down to spark a much-needed sense of animating friction.