The English Civil War is but fog in Ben Wheatley’s oblique, ominous and wickedly idiosyncratic barney through the old weird England, says Philip Kemp.

(Ben Wheatley, U.K., 2013)

British director Ben Wheatley gives the costume drama a mind-bending remix with black magic and psychedelic monochrome visuals.

A film set in 17th century England follows mushroom-hallucinating defectors through an encounter with a thief. 'A Field in England' is trippy but happenstance.

It may be utterly baffling but there's earthy humour, eerie sounds and sporadic splatter to get your teeth into.

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“A Field in England,” directed by Ben Wheatley, follows a group of deserters whose troubles start when they leave the battlefield.

Ben Wheatley's historical drama "A Field in England," about a group of men wandering the countryside during the English civil war, is at once too little and ...

A Field in England aims to confound. The filth-encrusted characters aren’t easy to keep apart, and the narrative is too fragmentary and freakish to grasp

A defiantly unclassifiable cross-genre experiment that simultaneously reinvents and regurgitates low-budget British cinema as it goes.

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