Echo Valley (2025) Film Review B+

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

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!

is Another Julianne Moore Triumph

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