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The film that Joe is working on is his passion project. But both the film and Joe are becoming a little more than strange. His pregnant wife, Joanne, who has supported him on the project is getting worried but not as worried as she ought to be.
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Noel Murray Los Angeles Times 03/15/2018
There's a frankness to this picture that compensates for the overall slightness. It's the rare thriller that looks to combine "Five Easy Pieces" and "Taxi Driver." Go to Full Review
Katie Rife AV Club 10/27/2017
[A] deathly dull character study. Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey Variety 08/08/2017
Cross is very good at nuancing the hidden depths of a character whose precise "problem" is purposefully kept elusive in Farahani and Jason O'Leary's intelligent script. Go to Full Review
Tracy Allen PopHorror.com 08/08/2019
3.5/10
...no one will listen to me, no one is patting me on the back for all of my hard work, I want to do what I want and not what I need to do, I can't be... happy for anyone else because I'm too busy feeling bad about the stuff happening to me... Ugh. Go to Full Review
Kat Hughes THN 08/29/2018
4/5
An engaging and intense psychological drama that hooks you from the start, Tilt will unnerve you with just how true to life it could well be. Go to Full Review
Jennie Kermode Eye for Film 07/28/2017
3/5
Alexander Alexandrov's grimy cinematography shows us the dirt and the grit we have come to associate with working class Americans going off the rails, and applies it to well cared for suburban homes and cityscapes usually pictured as glamorous. Go to Full Review
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03/09/2019 Not a fan of this movie. It's an extremely slow burn with a decent sized pay off in the end. I'm not the hugest fan of slow burns where not much happens hence my disapproval of this movie, But if you're a fan of slow burns then this may be right up your alley. It's hard to see this as being a horror... it's more of a drama suspense with some dark elements in it. The acting is just ok so that doesn't help with the movie trying to hold your attention. The downward plight of the main character is slow (promise that's the last reference using the word 'slow') and hence there's problems with the pacing. Lastly it's not original at all, so it loses points for that too, See more 05/10/2018 This movie is really genius. The writing is amazing. The film is In the same vein as "Get Out" although a different genre of people ...aka white people. :) It holds interest ... it is scary from a smart perspective. I do not like horror films at all but I loved this film. See more 03/19/2018 this movie scared the living f*** right out of me. all my neighbor's Drive Priuses and converse with subversive political correctness dialect. we must do everything in our power to get rid of Donald Trump now because if one snowflake can become so triggered as to mass murder randoms and his pregnant wife just imagine the rage blizzard that is on the forefront if Trump is reelected. if the most enlightened and empathetic of us a filmmaker who is woke and trying to bring Universal awareness to all of us can snap we have all lost. See more 03/18/2018 TILT is intense and suspenseful from start to finish. But what transcends its genre is the thought-provoking - and truly terrifying - relatability of the main character. It's one thing to watch someone do terrible things with deliberate intent; that could never be us. It's something else when that person is as confused and creeped out as we are, watching him. Especially since Joe's "predicament" is so relatable too - questions about the value of his work, his impending fatherhood, the pressure to support a family, and, beyond all that, a world where Donald Trump is emerging as a viable force. The walls close in around him and he reacts without knowing why. He has no skills in looking at himself; he just doesn't understand. Bad things happen. He does them, on impulse - or fails to, with one brilliant scene in particular where a mundane, honest comment stops him. Very good writing and direction and acting, on a difficult subject. TILT doesn't waste a moment, tracking Joe's disintegration in a way that seems inevitable - yet tragic. That's where the horror comes in: This could be us. See more 03/18/2018 Slow to start then just started getting interesting then it ended abruptly. Sat through it even though I didn't enjoy it, waiting for something to happen but it never did. See more 03/06/2018 An interesting idea, a terrible execution. I was sold on "the first Trump-era horror film", and in return, I got a messy, barely comprehensible, paper-thin story with confusing plotlines and a lot of things that go nowhere. It's slow and angry, but it has something to say. I do think it's a story that would've needed a lot more time to develop, and at least a few re-writes, but I understand that it was made in a hurry, as an emergency. I loved the subtleties in the background, the hidden words and messages that are sprinkled throughout, which prove to me that the director had a great eye for detail... I just wish he also cared about the audience's comprehension of basic story elements. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis The film that Joe is working on is his passion project. But both the film and Joe are becoming a little more than strange. His pregnant wife, Joanne, who has supported him on the project is getting worried but not as worried as she ought to be.
Director
Kasra Farahani
Producer
Kasra Farahani, Kristina Kondrath, Giri Tharan
Screenwriter
Kasra Farahani, Jason O'Leary
Distributor
Vertical Entertainment
Production Co
Ball & Chain Productions, ReKon Productions
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 16, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 13, 2018
Runtime
1h 41m
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