Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

After an absence of a decade a 60 year old woman who is a recovering addict returns for a family gathering for the Thanksgiving holiday. The stress of the situation leads her to return to her addictions, resulting in an even worsening scenario.Krisha is an unrelentingly depressing viewing experience. Its central character is well played but she is a person I found basically somewhat difficult to care about very much at all. What we know is she has allowed her personal habits to take precedence in her life and she has chosen them over her family, who she has abandoned. I found it quite easy to understand why the extended family members were reluctant to embrace her fully. So from the get-go I guess I had a problem with this one, as in a serious drama such as this it helps massively if you care for the predicament of the central character, at least in some way, but I found myself ambivalent at best. During the course of the film Krisha remains an outsider within the family unit. We never know exactly what she has done in the past exactly but it would be fair to assume she has messed up pretty bad. The film is quite successful, however, in presenting the anxieties that large family gatherings can bring about even at the best of times, and it does play upon this quite universal feeling quite well. The director and cast all seem to be actual family members themselves and all sport their real first names, so it's a pretty personal affair that is for sure and it does achieve a certain claustrophobia and intensity at times. The director also experiments with differing aspect ratios and a dissonant score, both of which I can't say I cared for too much. While this film does achieve a certain realism with its raw approach, I can't say I liked it very much. It wasn't what I would classify as either entertaining or informative really. Just a downer but not in a good way.

Wow. I grabbed a bunch of what were considered by many to be the best indie films of 2016 for a big screen night at home with friends. We grabbed this little number off the top, sat down and proceeded to have our heads blown off. This is an all too rare moment in cinema when you remember how brutally honest and truthful screen stories can be. And how fake most cinema is by comparison. I have been in house like that. Had family dinners like that. Known people like that. The sadness of well meaning people ruining the lives of the ones they love. There were no obvious good or bad people in this. Just flawed truthful portrayals. The camera and sound are incredible. The performances stunning. And yes, it's very very camp and funny in moments. But so is life when you look at it a certain way. It's also almost too sad at times. Also how life can be. I can't recommend this highly enough. I just hope our writer director doesn't use the buzz from this near perfect little gem to make a crappy flick about "real life" with George Clooney.

Terrible movie. I saw many of the reviewers rated this movie because of its realism? The soundtrack punishes you the entire movie.And there was no substance to really follow. I'm usually all for these one-off, real-type movies (then again, if I wanted real life or somebody else problems, I wouldn't sit down in front of the TV to watch this nonsense).Sure.. go ahead, watch it. Don't say I didn't warn you. Whatever the length of the movie in wasted time.This was a complete waste of time.. and I've seen pretty terrible movies like that movie where Samuel Jackson is the bad neighbour? Yeah, this beat that out 1000x over.

As an aspiring filmmaker, I cannot help but feel as if I relate to the debut filmmaker Trey Edward Shults. This film is heavily stylized and intense, and I feel that if I were able to make my own low budget film it would turn out to be something like this. The film focuses on extreme emotions, making the audience feel somewhat warm and humored at first, but completely crushed by the final shot. The film is overall extremely ambitious in its approach, due to Shults' use of long takes, black humor, and an atmosphere that contains both heavy realism and surrealism. "Krisha", one of the finest and funniest films to come out last year, is not only a beautifully made film but also the most earth shatteringly heartbreaking portrait of addiction since "Requiem for a Dream". It takes place during Thanksgiving as a family prepares for the holiday. One somewhat special member of the family has visited this year, Krisha, an old woman who has been absent of their presence for 10 years. This brilliant, harrowing shocker combines elements of humor and horror to craft a modern miracle. Unfortunately, this masterpiece is quite obscure and underrated-but I must urge anyone stumbling across my review to check it out immediately! It is a jaw droppingly fantastic work of art.