Netflix's 'The Devil All the Time' is a silly film that thinks it's a serious one

The Devil All the Time may sound like a flowery title, but it turns out to be a fairly straightforward description of what this movie is: 138 minutes of devilish deeds, mostly but not exclusively murder. It's a harrowing journey into the darkness of man — or it would be, if it weren't so ludicrous.

The very premise is the kind that suggests big, weighty ideas about the nature of evil, generational trauma, toxic masculinity, and the senselessness of violence. The saga unfolds across two different states over three different decades, bookended on either end by war. In the 1940s, three separate couples meet and fall in love. By the 1950s, two of those couples have children. Well into the 1960s, these families and others continue to find their fates tangled together, by design or coincidence (or, as some of the more religious characters would insist, divine providence).  Read more...

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