L'ospite

...is fluently made and really well acted, particularly by Ruth Wilson...

...offers a soupy atmosphere of low-level dread and paints a devastating portrait of a vanishing age.

...if you’re looking for a story that demands as much from its viewers as it does from the filmmakers, you may very well find The Little Stranger as compelling as I did...

Adapted from a novel by Sarah Waters, this gothic noir is well made...

...a calculated slow burn, one that plays a cunning head game with those viewers willing to be entranced.