Here Before

2021

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 74 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53%
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1897 1.9K

Plot summary

Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.

Director

Stacey Gregg Photo
Stacey Gregg

Top cast

Grace O'Dwyer Photo
Grace O'Dwyer as Josie
Andrea Riseborough Photo
Andrea Riseborough as Laura
Eileen O'Higgins Photo
Eileen O'Higgins as Marie
Martin McCann Photo
Martin McCann as Chris
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759.99 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 22 min
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1.53 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 22 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by martlarrivee 7 / 10

Very well done... almost loved it.

The acting, the mood, the cinematography... is superb. There is not much going on to be honest, but I actually loved the first 2/3 because the small details were clever, and tensions felt very real. I don't mind a slow burn when it's so well executed. For me, the" twist" ending was the let down. The movie is rather slow, and it way too much to unpack in the last 15 minutes, felt rushed and hard to swallow. The more I think about the ending, the more it really doesn't make much sense, and contrasts a lot with the rest of the movie that feels mature and believable. Still, reminds me a bit of "Birth" with Nicole Kidman... Not a great movie, but it kind of sticks with you.
Reviewed by elliest_5 5 / 10

Annoyingly meandering script that falls flat

On paper, this should be a good film: a psychological thriller, centred on grief and on the tension between common sense and being desperate to believe in something beyond reality. However, other than some pretty decent acting, the film fails in every other respect.The atmosphere and suspense doesn't properly build up, it's rather deflated throughout the film (it doesn't even properly pick up in the third act), neither does the psychological portrait of the main heroine. It's supposed to mainly be about her slow descent into grief-fuelled paranoia, but that gets side-tracked by a lack of coherence in every other character's behaviour.It might have worked if it had been entirely focused on the main heroine's point of view, but instead we jump around following a bunch of characters whose motives and internal worlds are entirely opaque, being given nothing to work with. And then at the very end, where you hope for everything to finally fall into place, the resolution is anticlimactic and not particularly believable either.
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