Avaliações do Metacritic

By turning the tables and making a Black woman the landowner, the filmmaker manages to both subvert the past and illustrate the same economic forces that led to all the inequality we still face in the real world. It all makes for a fitting Fourth of July weekend viewing, with plenty of cannibal combat thrown in for good measure.

This is a complete vision from a newly minted feature director, and it’s a work very much welcome as it joins the many that have tilled similar acreages.

Though R.T. Thorne’s dynamic siege thriller has some familiar moves, it is full of fresh ideas.

There’s a tense beauty to 40 Acres. Deadwyler’s forceful energy fills the frame; through her rigid stature and her cleareyed speech, she lends power and humor to this lovingly stern mother.

40 Acres continually finds clever ways to either subvert familiar story beats or to make them land with extra impact.

A slow build of suspense steadies the pacing, allowing the audience to piece together the puzzle alongside the characters.

Ultimately, the film has some heartfelt moments and themes, and while dark and violent, it is, in the end, an uplifting story about family, legacy, and hope.

40 Acres is a tense, violent and generally satisfying survivalist thriller.

Thorne has made a resolute portrait of a woman who can’t break free of generational trauma.

The problem is that 40 Acres simply sprinkles its few unique ideas atop a shambling post-apocalyptic template.