Overview

• Echo Valley is directed by Michael Pearce from a Brad Ingelsby screenplay and follows Kate, a horse-ranch mother played by Julianne Moore, whose life is upended when her estranged daughter Claire (Sydney Sweeney) reappears covered in blood and entangled in a drug-related scheme.
• The supporting cast features Fiona Shaw as Kate’s longtime friend, Domhnall Gleeson as a menacing local figure, Kyle MacLachlan as Claire’s father, and Edmund Donovan in a key role.
• Reviewers have highlighted Jed Kurzel’s understated score for its pervasive tension and Benjamin Kracun’s cinematography for its immersive rural compositions.
• Moore’s restrained, somber performance and Sweeney’s blend of raw desperation and calculated manipulation have been singled out as the film’s strongest assets.
• Some critics fault the film’s resolution for feeling abrupt, arguing that its deeper themes of trauma and family reconciliation remain underexplored.