Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed to fail. Metaphors are a good way to bolster a story, but they ...

Just as there are a hundred different ways to grieve, there are a hundred different metaphors for grief. A rain cloud. A ...

A horror movie taking place in the shadow of its central metaphor, The Thing with Feathers adapts a poetic novella steeped in maudlin black comedy into a 104-minute slog.

Grief is the gutting of the soul. Grief is love with no place to go. Grief is a revealing force. Grief is also the thing with feathers. Adapted from Max Porter’s astonishing debut novella ...

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.