
Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women - two sisters and one African-American slave - must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.... (Full plot summary below)
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Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women - two sisters and one African-American slave - must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.
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| The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe Keeping Room attempts a blend of sexual curiosity, home invasion horror and elegiac drama, that doesn't quite work, but whose ambitions are nonetheless compelling. |
| indieWireEric KohnEven as The Keeping Room plays with formulaic ingredients, it manages to combine them into an eloquent portrait of gender, race and the constant march of time without overstating any of its potent themes. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordNever for a moment does Marling, Steinfeld or Otaru let a hint of modernity affect their speech or performance. |
| National PostChris KnightThe Keeping Room, beautifully shot in withered browns like a fading photograph, creates a perfectly realized world, at once part of history and yet outside of it. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongDark, brooding and brutal, "The Keeping Room" features finely carved performances in a Civil War period piece that might as well be post-apocalyptic. |
| AV ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyLike Barber’s London-set vigilante movie "Harry Brown," it’s another lurid exploitation film classed up with moody lighting and character monologues, with none of the authentic regional flavor or amateur energy that gave real grindhouse flicks their tang. |
| New York TimesNicolas RapoldMr. Barber can work up a fair sense of menace, but he seems to have directed most of the talented cast to speak their lines in a mannered fashion learned from other movies. |
| Scene-Stealers.comEric MelinThere's not a lot of twists and turns; it's just one sustained mood of dread and and ending that makes puts the entire thing into a wider, scarier perspective. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloEngaging but brutally violent Civil War drama. |
| Paste MagazineRoss BonaimeThe Keeping Room for the most part is able to convey the terror that these women clearly feel, and is even is able to bring some humanity to the villainous Union soldiers, but too often it's frankly on the nose. |