Review: Cannibals Are Coming in the Postapocalyptic Thriller '40 Acres' — and This Family Is Ready to Fight

’40 Acres’ Review: Danielle Deadwyler Protects Her Farm in a Dystopian Home Invasion Saga

Danielle Deadwyler protects her farm from cannibals in the socially conscious thriller '40 Acres.' Read our review.

Review: Cannibals are coming in the postapocalyptic thriller '40 Acres' — and this family is ready to fight

R.T. Thorne's starvation drama hits its themes hard, but we're rooting for leads Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes and Kataem O'Connor.

Movie review: Even Danielle Deadwyler can't rescue '40 Acres' from wasteland

Danielle Deadwyler is one of the most captivating screen actors working today, bringing visceral, intense emotion to her performances in “Till” and “The Piano Lesson,” and elevating schlocky genre fare like “The Woman in the Yard” and “Carry-On.” But not even Deadwyler can save the dystopian action-horror film “40 Acres,” despite her Herculean efforts. The feature directorial debut of music ...

40 Acres - Spectrum Culture

The desolate near-future of 40 Acres is a frighteningly believable one from writer/director R.T. Thorne—making his feature debut in both disciplines—and deserves a better movie than the one we’ve gotten. The world’s population of animals died out first, the horrifying result of a fungal pandemic that apparently spread too fast for anyone in a helpful position to do anything, and then a famine hit as every crop yield on Earth, and every resulting…

An Unsettling Danielle Deadwyler Leads Disjointed ‘40 Acres’

The post-apocalyptic thriller from R.T. Thorne opens this week at the Belcourt and select Regal and AMC theaters

'40 Acres' Review: Hope Endures in a Shattered World

Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor, Haile Amare, and Jaeda LeBlanc in ’40 ACRES’ (Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) 40 Acres is an incredibly intense post-apocalyptic thriller set in a world transformed by a fungal pandemic followed by civil war and famine. The film plunges us into a new reality where fertile farmland has become the world’s most coveted resource. And yet, despite the bleak setting, 40 Acres is a profoundly …