The Rows - Comments & Tips

A child lost in endless corn with masked men on her heels. Bold idea, thin payoff. Overlong, indulgent, and too many scenes go nowhere. Seven-year-old Lucy wakes in a cornfield with a head wound, a gun nearby, and hunters closing in. The set-up rules but the execution drifts. Long dialogue-light stretches promise myth and then stall; subplots appear and vanish; indulgent detours kill the pulse. Festival notes promised a potboiler in the vein of No Country for Old Men and The Strangers with a golden creature stalking the rows. On screen it needs trimming and clarity; atmosphere alone can't carry 98 minutes. If you liked… The Strangers, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, No Country for Old Men, A Quiet Place