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56 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinDispassionate engagement won't fly here. You either stagger out early or plunge in up to your elbows.
- 100New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaNew York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaSuspiria is a gorgeous, hideous, uncompromising film, and while it seeks to do many things, settling our minds about the brutality of the past and human nature is not one of them.
- 100Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIt’s only hours afterward that Guadagnino’s film will cohere for you and yield its buried treasures: the bonds of secret sorority, the strength of a line of dancers moving like a single organism, the present rippling with the muscle memory of the past. It’s so good, it’s scary.
- 91IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichGuadagnino dredges up the dead with such crazed purpose that his magnum opus is able to dance through its rough spots and make good on its foreboding promise.
- 91The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangIt’s a long, deliriously filmic, primal banshee-howl of macabre imagination that leaves us hormonal and drunk on delusion: the beautiful, thrilling, lurid lie of cinema.
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonSuffice to say, Suspiria tries to do much, culminating in a finale that’s almost laughably over-the-top. But the passion of Guadagnino’s messy vision — the swirl of emotions he conjures on this grand canvas — has a forcefulness that mostly transcends its sizable flaws.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe remake is never uninteresting. But it begets the question of whether the slender thread of story about a coven of witches operating out of a famed Berlin dance academy can withstand all the narrative detail, social context and cumbersome subplots heaped onto it.
- 70VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanSuspiria has been made with enough skill to get inside your head, but enough ominous pretension to leave you scratching it.
- 60The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThere are smart moments of fear and subliminal shivers of disquiet, the dance sequences are good and of course Guadagnino could never be anything other than an intelligent film-maker. But this is a weirdly passionless film.
- 35TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeSo what does Guadagnino’s version convey? Boredom, mostly, with confusion and a dollop of disappointment and irritation.