Grief is a winged beast that squawks and mocks the living in The Thing with Feathers, the story of a widower struggling to cope with the recent death of his beloved wife while being pestered by a giant talking crow.

The Thing With Feathers may be based on a book, but it also takes inspiration from an unlikely source — the album cover of the Who's 1979 album, The Kids Are Alright. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Saturday night,

The actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.

Dylan Southern adapts the Max Porter novella, ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers,' about a widowed father and the menacing giant crow that attaches itself to his sorrow.

Crows rustle in Dylan Southern's fiction feature debut, the haunting story of a middle-aged man coming to terms with the sudden and unexpected death of his wife, the mother of his two boys. In terms of genre,

In "The Thing With Feathers," based on the 2015 novel "Grief is the Thing With Feathers" by Max Porter, grief is manifested by a giant, anthropomorphized crow, who alternately haunts and helps a family recover from the sudden loss of its wife and mother.

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