ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE | ©2025 Republic Pictures

Rating: R
Stars: Eddie Marsan, Sam Claflin, Burn Gorman, Tienne Simon, Suki Waterhouse, Rory Kinnear
Writer: John Patrick Dover
Director: Barnaby Roper
Distributor: Republic Pictures
Release Date: September 26, 2025

ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE begins with a long shot of an isolated two-story farmhouse in the English countryside. We hear men’s voices, then gunfire. One of the things that we later realize is that this scene is not repeated, as we expect it to be, in the third act.

Ronnie Blake (Eddie Marsan) starts out speaking to us in voiceover. He wants to tell us some things. It will bother him if he doesn’t at least try. He wants to get out of his line of work, feeling like he just can’t do it anymore.

Ronnie, not surprisingly, is a career criminal who does jobs for the unseen Mr. Reynolds. He is summoned into the office by Mr. Reynolds’ lieutenant, the slick Harold Laing (Rory Kinnear). Laing butters up Ronnie for what it’s worth, telling him that Mr. Reynolds knows Ronnie has old-fashioned values like honor and loyalty, seldom seen these days. Mr. Reynolds wants Ronnie to oversee a crew.

The job is a bank robbery. All is going smoothly until stick-up man Grady (Sam Claflin) decides to beat a tied-up security guard to death with a telephone.

Ronnie is furious, and knows Reynolds will be as well, but all they can do is follow the plan. Under cover of darkness, Ronnie and Grady and young getaway driver Royce (Tienne Simon) race away from the crime site.

In the morning, they meet up with accountant Numbers (Burn Gorman) to change vehicles, dispose of clothes and weapons, and together head as a quartet to the designated hideout with the loot.

We recognize the farmhouse from the opening. Numbers claims to have instructions from Reynolds. Given that these are logical commands, they’re probably true. Since Numbers is visibly not a tough guy and wouldn’t dream of crossing the dangerous Reynolds, he’s meant to guard the money, so he gets the upstairs room with three bolts inside the door.

There are only two other bedrooms. Ronnie, as the leader, commandeers one for himself, leaving Grady and Royce to share the other.

None of the men have met previously, although Grady thinks he recognizes Numbers from somewhere. It doesn’t take long for them to all get on each other’s nerves, especially Grady, who is a loud, provoking sociopath.

We get flashbacks to each man’s interview with Laing and some startling side flashes as well, but we’re mostly trapped on the premises with the gang.

One of the major achievements of John Patrick Dover’s screenplay, Barnaby Roper’s direction and the cast’s performances is that all of this is rendered entirely watchable. Too often, in scenarios where people are driving each other crazy, the audience doesn’t want to spend time with them, either. In ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE, we remain curious enough as to what will happen and why to remain intrigued.

Part of this is the writing and acting of the character of Ronnie. We’ve seen his type before, but Marsan has such honesty and depth, and looks so convincing as a man who is perpetually underestimated, that he holds our attention.

Claflin is superbly irritating as Grady, Gorman effectively blends snobbishness and neuroticism as Numbers, and Simon is persuasive as a young man trying not to show that he knows he’s in over his head. Kinnear makes being soft-spoken and jovial highly threatening, and Suki Waterhouse maintains a proper air of ambiguity as another member of Mr. Reynolds’s staff.

ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE (an abbreviation of the quote “Hell is empty, and all of the devils are here” from Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST, not to be confused with the similar-sounding “When Hell is overflowing, the dead will walk the Earth”), as its title implies, has a metaphysical side.

This aspect arguably could use a somewhat better build-up. By the time it hits its stride, while it fills in some questions we have, it also seems a little unearned and leaves us if what happens after the closing credits may be more interesting than what we’ve seen so far.

However, for those who like gritty English crime thrillers with atmosphere and menace, ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE is a well-qualified example of the genre.

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