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The Devil All the Time (2020)

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The Devil All the Time (2020)

Overview

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.


Starring Cast


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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center

Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Negative

Viewer Rating
6.6

Overview

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Netflix logoNetflix
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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film explores the dark aspects of human nature, religious fanaticism, and generational trauma without explicitly promoting or critiquing a specific political ideology, thus aligning with a neutral rating.

The movie features predominantly traditional casting, consistent with its mid-20th-century rural American setting. However, its narrative strongly critiques traditional male figures, particularly those in positions of religious and legal authority, by portraying them as corrupt, hypocritical, and violent.

Secondary

The film portrays various forms of fundamentalist Christianity as a source of violence, hypocrisy, and delusion, with numerous characters using faith to justify horrific acts or succumbing to its destructive interpretations. There is no significant counterbalancing positive portrayal, and even sympathetic religious characters are victims of the extremism around them.

The film "The Devil All the Time" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative primarily focuses on heterosexual relationships, religious fanaticism, and generational trauma in a rural setting, with no depiction of queer identity or experiences.

The film "The Devil All the Time" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a multi-generational story of faith, violence, and trauma in a post-World War II rural setting, without incorporating any elements related to transgender identity.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film is an adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock's novel. All major characters in the movie retain the same gender as established in the original source material.

The film is an adaptation of a novel set in the American South, featuring characters who are consistently portrayed by actors of the same race as implied or described in the source material. No character established as one race in the novel was depicted as a different race in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.1
The Movie Database logo
7.2

Critic Ratings

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6.5
Metacritic logo
5.5

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