"Displaying to the World the Depth of Your Grief in Tangible, Material Means"

"Which is to say that the question about madness that swirls around Sarah Winchester is always in part a question of changing tastes. The work of mourning is not a constant, but changes from generation to generation. Victorian ostentation gives way to embalming and a lifelike appearance for open caskets, to cremation and scattering of ashes, to green burials. Sarah Winchester, who in this film enters the twentieth century still clad in last century's widow's weeds, seems to ask that most pressing question: If this behavior wasn't mad 30 years ago and you've simply kept up at it, has it become mad now?"

Colin Dickey at the New Republic reviews the new movie Winchester.