The Survivalist

You'll leave completely rapt.

eerie and masterful ... as riveting as it is morally confounding.

The Survivalist...is as terrific and as suspenseful a post-apocalyptic thriller as any I'll likely see this year.

Impressively lean and rigidly controlled, "The Survivalist" achieves, at times, the primitive allure of a silent movie.

Fingleton's spare, striking debut feature takes a minimalist approach to the post-apocalyptic thriller.

Both dire and oddly poetic.

While the narrative structure does fumble a bit and the characters needed to be fleshed out more, The Survivalist is a compelling watch that does have something unique to say given it’s genre.

The result is a hugely confident, mostly absorbing blend of psychodrama and apocalyptic Western. It's claustrophobic, bleakly astringent and not for all tastes -- but it marks Fingleton out as a promising new voice.

It's an original and stunning debut for writer/director Fingleton.

The Survivalist's plot of a man living in a dangerous, post-apocalyptic world after its oil runs out feels deceptively new, but it ends up treading the same ground as countless other films, books and TV shows.