House of Ashes

"House of Ashes" delivers a poignant and powerful story about breaking free from control that features a revelatory performance from Fayna Sanchez and fierce direction from Izzy Lee.

Her movie has visual style to spare — colorful, vertiginous, even seemingly gialli-inspired at times — and it has a strong point of view of the terrible topicality of the attacks on women’s bodily autonomy.

If the story elements focusing on those thought-provoking elements had been followed, it would have been a strong movie. However, I still think House of Ashes is worth checking out, and I look forward to watching...

It’s a story that was clearly made with the best of sociopolitical intentions, but it lacks both the gumption and the know-how to translate its dissatisfaction into a truly biting critique.