Best Wishes to All
Shudder | Release Date (Streaming): June 13, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
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0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen RantNick BythrowJun 10, 2025
Showcasing a harrowing horror story about the cost of happiness, Best Wishes to All is a terrifying, twisted tale that never lets up on the scary revelations it keeps unearthing. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comZachary LeeJun 13, 2025
Despondent and gloomy even while it’s against a backdrop of bucolic beauty, director Yûta Shimotsu’s debut feature “Best Wishes to All” is the type of unsettling, high-concept horror film that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it with unforgiving verve. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineJim VorelJun 11, 2025
An occasionally inscrutable and tonally unpredictable look at family, (lack of) empathy, self-centeredness and societal (and generational) rot, the film veers wildly between the genuinely disturbing and cynically comedic as it indicts Japanese society’s particular ennui toward happiness, satisfaction and aging. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineGregory NussenJun 8, 2025
The film is comic yet vicious and cynically bleak in its portraiture of Japan’s silent plague. Read full review
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