"Caveat" exists in a liminal space between genres, which is fitting for a film about the skeletons that might hide inside the walls of an old house.

Things get a bit wonky along the final stretch, and the Irishman can't quite stick the landing. But there's plenty here to admire and it will be exciting to see where he goes next.

"Caveat" is like a gothic horror tone poem, with pungent notes of decay.

...an exceptionally (and often unreasonably) deliberate endeavor that benefits from its foreboding atmosphere and compelling mystery...