Evil Does Not Exist

...a haunting depiction of the gulf between capitalism and environmentalism.

...the film never feels like a patchwork, but rather a cohesive whole. Or to be more specific: a haunting and meditative yet often hilarious cohesive whole.

Preachers are a dime a dozen, while true humanists are as endangered as the woods of Mizubiki Village.

Ryu Hamaguchi’s quietist, enigmatic eco-parable Evil Does Not Exist refuses easy explanations and perhaps it refuses difficult explanations as well.

A complicated moral mystery that's both thriller and fable.

This icily unnerving enigma of a film from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi makes no pronouncements on evil one way or the other; it’s more concerned with how some actions can have disturbingly unpredictable consequences.