The darkest-timeline version of CAPTAIN FANTASTIC, this film gets wrong most of what FANTASTIC got right. The child lead, Chandler Head, is the biggest selling point, delivering a fantastic and difficult performance. The third act is wholly unearned and feels very fabricated, even though this is "based on a true story". In the end, though, the parents come across as deplorable monsters, without any sort of vindication or reasoning for their choices and behavior, and the film never really addresses that.
6/10
