Savage Grace

Adapted from the nonfiction book by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson, Tom Kalin's Savage Grace recounts the true crime tale of the death of Barbara Baekeland. Stephen Dillane stars as Brooks Baekeland, the son of the man who invented Bakelite, one of the early forms of plastic. As the family ...more

Independent cinema has all but taken ownership over portraying familial strife. With dysfunction as its hallowed territory, Savage Grace has fittingly set up habitation on the rocky indie film terrain, taking the matriarchal neuroses of Mommy Dearest and magnifying them to a terrifying degree. Like the lazy blue blood socialites it depicts, the film drifts from one breathtaking locale to the next—seaside destinations in France and Spain being particular favorites of the doomed Baekeland clan—the ...more