Echo Valley (2025) Queer Film. Another Julianne Moore Triumph. B+

“Echo Valley” is a 2025 thriller directed by Michael Pearce, featuring Julianne Moore and 

Sydney Sweeney. The film is centered around a mother daughter relationship complicated 

by crime and addiction.

Exploring themes of family, resilience, and survival “Echo Valley” is a taut psychological drama set against a rural backdrop,. The director, Michael Pearce, who made the great British film “Beast” with Jessie Buckley, keeps this tale of drug addiction, murder, and cover-up moving with visceral precision. Working seamlessly with his leading lady, he shows us what a magnificent actress Julianne Moore can be.

Playing a trainer of wild horses, alone on her ranch and mourning the death of her partner from her first long-term lesbian relationship, Moore evinces a beatific word-weary quality that’s challenged when her drug addict daughter gets into trouble with the wrong crowd. Sydney Sweeney, Fiona Shaw and a chilling Domhnall Gleeson provide excellent support. Sweeney gives Ann Blyth a run for her money as the most ungrateful daughter in movie history!

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