La forêt

« Ce manque de cohérence narrative amoindrit du reste la force dramatique du coup de théâtre final. Dans son vrai premier rôle au cinéma, Natalie Dormer a beaucoup de présence, à défaut de toujours convaincre. »

« Decidedly spooky in places, The Forest is a good showcase for Natalie Dormer as a leading lady but fails to build upon its promise. It's not terrible, but still leaves you ultimately unsatisfied. »

« Puis, dans le dernier tiers du film, tout bascule: le récit - qui commence à s'étirer inutilement - prend soudainement une tangente invraisemblable, comme si les producteurs avaient charcuté le scénario. Coup de théâtre, la finale, abracadabrante, laisse le spectateur perplexe et déçu. »

« While The Forest is no worse than your average studio horror film; it's still quite sluggishly paced and too unimaginative to recommend as anything more than a slightly passable time waster on a streaming service. »

« Audiences unfamiliar with this legacy may initially find The Forest's imitative stylistic flourishes intriguing, although first-time feature director Jason Zada and his trio of screenwriters spurn most of the genre’s rich legacy. »

« For a while, The Forest defies expectations. »

« Natalie Dormer plays an American searching for her twin sister in Japan's Aokigahara forest in this cut-rate horror-thriller. »

« The Forest is a fairly dumb movie, but dumb movies, experience shows us, can often be quite scary. »

« There's barely a scare to be found in this tale of a woman searching for her sister in an infamous Japanese suicide locale. »

« The Forest doesn’t know if it's a supernatural thriller, a story about repressed childhood darkness, or an eerie doppelganger mystery. »