Them That Follow (2019)
Them That Follow plunges us into the stiflingly close-knit world of an extreme religious group, and it will be up to viewers to decide whether the dramatic rewards are worth the slow suffocation. There’s no questioning the intensity of writer-directors Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage’s portrait of a community that values God over medicine and believes women should be subservient to men, and a fine cast (led by Alice Englert) brings unshakable conviction to these cloistered, narrow-minded characters. But as grimly gripping as Them That Follow is, the proceedings have a stacked-deck quality to them, which keeps this compelling tale from being truly galvanising.
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