The Liberation

Carrie Coon.

Sean Fennessey

THE LIBERATION is an incredibly heavy and dark film about a Holocaust survivor who abandons her family to join an all-female cult led by a seductive Lily James. Carrie Coon is an absolute beast of an actor, tapping into some really complex and weighty emotions to deliver a…

Matt Neglia

Ostensibly based on a true story about a woman pulled into a cult in the early 1980s, the film falls into familiar narrative structures and patterns before wanting to have its cake and eat it, too. Carrie Coon is extraordinary as per her usual. She so casually knocks this…

Walter Chaw

Telluride film #4. All hail Carrie Coon.

Alicia Malone

carrie coon and bella ramsey doing the best with a script that is too long too stuffed yet somehow too underdeveloped. lily james doesn’t know what movie she’s in also carrie coon walked out of this screening right behind me and i was fighting for my life not to say…

alisha

World Premiere @Telluride with Carrie Coon, Tracy Letts, Odessa Young and LILY JAMES! Too bad it sucked.

Jesse

A great entry in the Friday night cinema canon. Lily James as Shailene Woodley, Carrie in Meryl mode.

Christopher Rosen

I see you, you two other fellow Telluride Film Fest goers that immediatly logged this on ur letterboxd after the world premire. I share your same urge.

TooScared

The Liberation - Like the cult leader at the center, this film grabs a hold of you and never lets go. An enthralling drama about a mother drawn into a cult with promises to free her from her pain. It’s a deeply personal, tragic tale, but painfully believable as she spirals…

Daniel Howat