The Bad Batch

Banished to a wasteland of undesirables, a young woman struggles to find her feet among a drug-soaked desert society and an enclave of cannibals. Watch trailers & learn more.

Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. With Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Jayda Fink, Keanu Reeves. In a desert dystopia, a young woman is kidnapped by cannibals.

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The Bad Batch follows Arlen (Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landsca...

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The aforementioned girl is Arlen, (Suki Waterhouse), one of thousands of Americans deemed unacceptable to society, who is unceremoniously dumped into a hostile desert wasteland fenced off from civilized society. While wandering in her desert exile, she is captured by a savage band of cannibals and quickly realizes she'll have to fight for her very existence in this human-eat-human world. With electrifying visuals, a score to die for and a stellar cast, Amirpour has created another cinematic chapter that is as uncategorizable as her first.

It’s impossible to ignore that this is a film with neither engaging emotional threads nor the kind of panache that makes such cinematic mayhem worth it.

Say what you want about The Bad Batch, but you can’t deny that it’s distinctive. As she did in her 2014 debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, director Ana Lily Amirpour builds an immersive world, this one with an offbeat look best described as “’90s trash raver,” full of colorful late 20th-century castoffs strewn across the deserts of inland California. (Speaking of the ’90s, a practically unrecognizable Jim Carrey even makes an appearance as a sunburnt drifter.) Its aesthetic is so current that it’s oddly ahead of its time, and it’s easy to imagine stoners in the year 2035—or whenever ’10s nostalgia comes around—admiring the film in between hits on their 3-D-printed bongs.

The Bad Batch movie reviews & Metacritic score: Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) is unceremoniously dumped in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilized society.

The Bad Batch is a 2016 American black comedy thriller film directed and written by Ana Lily Amirpour. The film stars Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Jim Carrey, Giovanni Ribisi and Keanu Reeves.