The Woman in the Yard

"[It] is gorgeously shot and features an excellent performance from Danielle Deadwyler, but that can't make up for a movie that gets so lost in its own narrative (...) Rating: 6 (out of 10)" 

"'The Woman in the Yard' belies its disingenuously bland title with its considerable thematic ambitions. The film doesn’t fully live up to them, but it deserves credit for trying something different in an oversaturated, frequently exploitative genre." 

"It’s actually rare to see a horror film of the week that’s a flat-out, old-school dud. But 'The Woman in the Yard' comes pretty close. It’s like a haunted-house movie with no tricks up its sleeve." 

"A choppy and meandering narrative that not even an admittedly committed lead performance by Danielle Deadwyler can help save (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

" It’s unsure of itself in a way that dooms it from the start, making for an inert feature that somehow stretches its 85-minute runtime to an eternity. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)" 

"[It] causes significant narrative whiplash with each question it answers, though none of its conclusions are satisfying" 

"On its terms, and especially with an ending I read as ambiguous, 'The Woman in the Yard' is also unflinching enough to maybe count as daring, and maybe Sollet-Cerra’s most viscerally moving film."