Apartment 7A
Paramount+ | Release Date (Streaming): September 27, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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75
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenOct 15, 2024
I imagine Rosemary’s Baby purists will be upset with the various references and connections Apartment 7A makes to the first film, a few of which are clumsy, but nothing was egregious enough to trip me up—including the final sequence, once again involving dance, which I found to be rather brilliant. Read full review
70
IGNKatie RifeSep 25, 2024
Although Apartment 7A's chills are mild, this decades-late Rosemary’s Baby prequel gets by on atmosphere and strong performances. Read full review
67
IndieWireRyan LattanzioSep 20, 2024
There’s nothing especially mold-breaking here, though an ending moment elicits a gasp even as Apartment 7A ends with a cruel shrug — and perhaps the best thing I can say about that is that now I immediately want to rewatch Rosemary’s Baby. Plus, Garner gives a captivatingly distressed performance as a woman being attacked from all sides, where the only way out is through a window. Read full review
67
The PlaylistBrian FarvourSep 20, 2024
Were it not for the concrete that is Julia Garner’s take on the lead, “Apartment 7A” could unquestionably spiral into indistinguishable obscurity, but even amidst cliché after cliché, it still manages to fulfill minimum requirements within the pantheon that is Horror 101. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 20, 2024
Apartment 7A seems afraid to stray too far from Mommy, justifying its existence through the sheer power of the great Julia Garner’s skill level, but leaving little else to recommend it. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 27, 2024
There are reasons to watch, principally Dianne Wiest’s outrageous Ruth Gordon impersonation and the presence of the gifted Julia Garner. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeSep 20, 2024
It’s not so much a prequel as it is a parallel story that continues underscoring the limited autonomy of women. Restrictive social mores trap both Rosemary and Terry, albeit in different ways. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramSep 20, 2024
A credible, if slightly limited, prequel that recaptures the atmosphere if not the originality of Rosemary’s Baby. Read full review
60
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaSep 20, 2024
The movie is largely entertaining, despite being pulled constantly in two directions: as a predecessor to an iconic work and as a distinct beast, with its own gripes against patriarchal norms. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganSep 27, 2024
Musings on motherhood, performance, and power are never fully articulated, leaving a flurry of concepts up in the air without resolve. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonSep 27, 2024
It’s passably spooky, sure. But all interesting prequels have something in common: They shed new light on their predecessors that expands, illuminates or complicates them in some way. Apartment 7A feels like a predictable retread. Read full review
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Screen RantSimon GallagherSep 20, 2024
The whole thing feels like a slightly wayward, if well-intentioned retread that was created out of the opportunity to answer three very specific mysteries in Rosemary's Baby, but muddled things too much. It's certainly passable, and there are things to admire, but this is nothing on the original. Read full review
40
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 27, 2024
What ensues is the exact same thing that happened to Mia Farrow’s wife, except minus the creepy surprise and, thus, any reason to pay attention. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 25, 2024
James had impressed with her debut, the dementia horror Relic, but any of that film’s texture or creepiness has dissolved on a larger scale. Read full review
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SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSep 20, 2024
I suppose the best thing to say about Apartment 7A is that once it's over, you'll probably immediately want watch the much better Rosemary's Baby and wash the dull memory of this movie away. Read full review
40
ColliderMaggie BoccellaSep 20, 2024
The film does so little work to make me care about the girl that came before Rosemary that I simply found myself wondering how she was going to die to properly set up the events of the original. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeSep 20, 2024
Rather than deepening or complicating the original work, Apartment 7A engages with it purely on franchise terms, as in how it foregrounds the Castavets for much of the runtime. Read full review
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Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerSep 26, 2024
A discarded made-for-TV sequel to Rosemary’s Baby in the ‘70s is now just what most mainstream American filmmaking is, summed by prequel Apartment 7A: something stupid, easy and familiar to watch in the comfort of one’s home, confined to the medium that had once threatened to overtake cinema and is now doing so again all these years later. Read full review
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San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSep 24, 2024
Think of all the ways “Apartment 7A” could have slyly addressed these times, or, conversely, more fully explored the practices of the Castavets’ cult. Instead, it's just a retread, and that’s why it’s bad. The devil is in the details. Read full review
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