As taut and economical as its title is unwieldy, Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene — a first feature that won the Best Director award last January at Sundance — is a deft, old-school ...

Elizabeth Olsen is mesmerising at the heart of Martha Marcy May Marlene, an indie drama that first made waves on the festival circuit way back in January last year. The actress, who's the younger ...

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FX has ordered a pilot for a new drama series starring Elizabeth Olsen, which will see the actor reunite with her “Martha Marcy May Marlene” director Sean Durkin. The pair’s new collaboration will ...

While it lacks the gory monsters of “The Thing” and the gotcha scares of “Paranormal Activity 3,” “Martha Marcy May Marlene” may be the most terrifying movie opening in theaters this month. It slowly ...

The basic plot of the film is fairly simple. Martha has escaped from a commune/cult somewhere in upstate New York, only to find herself at odds with her sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson) and Lucy’s husband ...

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As a member of a back-to-the-land cult in the Catskills, Marcy May's boyfriend, Patrick, "cleanses" her and the rest of his flock with ritualized rape and shooting lessons. Sequestered away in a ...

Excuse the title of "Martha Marcy May Marlene." It is confusing, longwinded and conjures images of haughty avant−garde cinema at its worst. A film's title is supposed to lure in the viewer — it is a ...

Martha Marcy May Marlene follows a young woman dealing with the aftermath of time spent in a rural cult-like commune. Writer/director Sean Durkin and star Elizabeth Olsen—younger sister of Mary-Kate ...

In her big screen debut, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s sister Elizabeth proves her own star power in the mesmerizing first film from writer-director Sean Durkin. The film explores the lengths to which ...