Come True
IFC Midnight | Release Date: March 12, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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15
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1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
86
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpMar 11, 2021
Burns conjures horror so vivid and tactile that at any time it feels like it might leap off of the screen and into our own imaginations or, worse, our own lives. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 12, 2021
There are only a couple of jump scares in Anthony Scott Burns’s Come True — mild ones at that — but the movie’s elusive sense of menace lingers for days, weeks, possibly forever. That’s quite an achievement for a film whose premise isn’t particularly novel. Read full review
80
The GuardianPhil HoadMar 11, 2021
As for interpreting what it all means, leave that to Burns’s therapist. The flamboyance on display here, though, promises great things. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaMar 11, 2021
In any genre, a distinct filmmaking voice and clever avoidance of cliches earns a closer look; perhaps even more so in the realm of sci-fi/horror. And no spoilers, but where Come True lands is extremely satisfying. Read full review
75
The PlaylistAsher LubertoMar 16, 2021
Come True” is a surreal, mysterious, and efficient mix of science fiction references with an original ending. Read full review
75
Original-CinJim SlotekMar 11, 2021
Sorting out what’s true and what’s not becomes so convoluted that the abrupt ending seems a case of either running out of money or ideas. Still, Come True is a movie that you’ll likely remember for the images it burns in the brain, more than for its story. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 11, 2021
Such a brilliant, spine-tingling buildup — and such a thudding disappointment of an ending. Watching the creatively creepy and starkly haunting Come True is like going to see a great new band in concert and seeing them kill it for the first 90 minutes, only to end the night dressed in wacky costumes and playing bagpipes. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassMar 9, 2021
The film offers a glimpse of a world where screens are pores in the boundary between dreams and waking life. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob StraussMar 8, 2021
Come True should be an exhilarating discovery for anyone it doesn’t put to sleep. But even if you do find yourself nodding off a little during this deliberately paced, low-humming, sci-fi horror movie, that means it’s working, too. Read full review
70
VarietyNick SchagerMar 17, 2021
With sterling command of its malevolently dreamy tone, it casts a disquieting spell. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 11, 2021
It’s ingenious and intriguing, right up to the silly finale, which should be forgiven if not ignored. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergMar 11, 2021
Like “Our House” (2018), Burns’s underseen feature debut, Come True is superior throwback horror marred mainly by familiarity and, in this case, an ending that feels like a tease. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comTomris LafflyMar 11, 2021
Burns doesn’t delve into Sarah’s emotional psyche as deeply as one craves throughout Come True. The somewhat maddening twist ending—more a copout than genuinely earned—excuses some of that misstep, but only artificially so. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrMar 11, 2021
It’s a smart film, certainly, but maybe not as smart as it wants to be. And there are a couple of clunkers that bring the mostly meditative experience to a halt. Read full review
62
PolygonJesse HassengerMar 12, 2021
Come True has some bone-chilling passages, like an epic sleepwalking sequence that feels eerily untethered from reality. Yet some chunks of it feel informed by the sleep-study scenes that unfold by the sickly glow of monitors: too clinical for pure-horror scares while lacking in convincing science fiction specifics. True to form, this is an impressively dreamlike movie: half vivid, half inexplicable. Read full review
58
IndieWireKate ErblandMar 11, 2021
In just his second feature, Burns exhibits a real knack for world-building, mythology-making, and crafting real tension, but a series of stumbles in the film’s final act — the worst of which is run through with icky implications Burns seems terribly unaware of — end the film on a wearisome final point. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleJenny NulfMar 11, 2021
Come True aims to explore the layers of the dreamworld, and the terrifying monsters that lurk in the depths of our minds. Yet the unconscious world writer/director Anthony Scott Burns dissects appears to evade him as well, with layers that lead to empty answers and a leading woman who is paper thin. Read full review
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