Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 93 minutes
Release Date: September 22nd, 2023 (USA)
Studio: 20th Century Studios / Hulu
Director(s): Brian Duffield
Writer(s): Brian Duffield

Moral of the story: people with crippling guilt and self-loathing have the capacity to understand happiness through their inability to find it while those who cannot escape their hate to learn to forgive deserve to be lobotomized so as to better serve the lives of their flawed yet worthier human counterparts? Sure. Why not?

A solid formal exercise with a mesmerizing central performance steeped in fear by Kaitlyn Dever. Great direction from Brian Duffield, effectively building on his success with Sponatneous. The script for No One Will Save You, however, feels less like a cohesive narrative with something to say than a platform for interesting visual ideas that ultimately have nowhere to go but a slapdash “Twilight Zone”-esque ending more wink-and-nod than profound.

Fantastic effects, though. The stop-motion movements of the aliens lend an otherworldly aesthetic that adds to their rather familiar bipedal creature construction and their integration into the surroundings is impeccable.

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Kaitlyn Dever as Brynn Adams in 20th Century Studios’ NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU, exclusively on Hulu. Photo by Sam Lothridge. © 2023 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.