Bring Her Back
A24 | Release Date: May 30, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
33
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
iChristina NewlandAug 1, 2025
There’s too much focus on disturbing the viewer rather than illuminating anything for them. Bring Her Back is a film that knows how to provoke, but not how to provide much insight. Read full review
60
The AtlanticDavid SimsMay 30, 2025
Bring Her Back is far more confident in its portrayal of Laura’s own story, building to a devastating and intense conclusion about the extent of her loss and her inability to deal with it. Hawkins is up to the challenge, and the rest of the ensemble is strong enough to keep pace. But many of those story beats feel perfunctory; the film comes to life in the nastier, grislier set pieces. Read full review
60
Screen RantMary KasselMay 16, 2025
The movie tells a tight, contained story, but spends a little too much time sharpening its emotional knives to craft a truly compelling supernatural story. Bring Her Back gets lost in the weeds of its desire to rip your heart out. Read full review
58
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMay 16, 2025
The mythology of Bring Her Back is dizzyingly unclear and patched-together from what feel like studio notes commissioning both over-explication and also less of it, as if ambiguity alone can pass for scares. But the emotions and the performances in the present day are there. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 2, 2025
It’s the filmmakers’ unsparing depiction of violence against children that overwhelms this story of supernaturalism or desperate, misguided superstition. That seems excessive, a shock-value cheat that gives this “wrenching nature of loss and grief” story a sense of overkill. Read full review
50
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerMay 28, 2025
There is a better film somewhere in Bring Her Back, but it has instead been formatted into an unrewarding and unrelenting exercise in unpleasantness. Read full review
50
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferMay 16, 2025
When they can translate something into a tangible sensation, like the camera effects of focus that take viewers into Piper’s distorted field of vision, the film operates within a comfortable range for the directors. Where they struggle to locate resonance is in the emotional realm. Read full review
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