Jack Goes Home
After his father dies in a car crash, a man (Rory Culkin) returns home to care for his injured mother, only to uncover long buried secrets and lies within his family history, his parents, his friends and his very identity.
18 April 1990, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
1951, Cedartown, Georgia, USA
12 October 1943, Detroit, Michigan, USA
10 November 1956, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
4 April 1979, New York City, New York, USA
October 12, 2016
Jack Goes Home is a breakdown you can't quite grasp, despite some genre merits that certainly embrace the dark.
October 12, 2016
What's more disappointing than the competing storylines is the emotional void created by these joyless characters.
October 14, 2016
The horror elements ... [are] insultingly cheap and appallingly lazy, a collection of parlor tricks deployed in a movie that overstays its welcome by 20 minutes.
October 13, 2016
While the movie's artfully made and daringly disturbing, Dekker ultimately overestimates how many sick twists one motion picture needs.
October 13, 2016
This is the "snap" people talk about: that indefinable moment where the person you couldn't fathom doing anything heinous transforms into a killer without rhyme or reason.
October 14, 2016
Jack Goes Home triples down on weird and stays in a dark, twisted place. It's a grueling, joyless viewing experience.
October 10, 2016
The film veers almost at random from ghost story to family drama to erotic thriller to black comedy.
October 13, 2016
The script, by Mr. Dekker, spirals into a muddle of ambiguity, leaving only the imagery and the performances to save the movie. And try as they might, they cannot.
